Code refactoring

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Code refactoring

Quality:

Software refactoring - process of restructuring existing computer code without changing its external behavior. Article “Code refactoring” in English Wikipedia has 45.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.38 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Code refactoring”, its content was written by 307 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1008 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 203 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1183 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1586 in August 2001
  • Global: #1136 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #32819 in March 2015
  • Global: #32594 in March 2015

There are 32 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Code refactoring
45.304
2Hungarian (hu)
Kódrefaktorálás
43.4071
3Korean (ko)
리팩터링
35.2654
4Chinese (zh)
代码重构
34.516
5Estonian (et)
Koodi refaktoreerimine
33.7284
6Bulgarian (bg)
Преработка на код
32.5399
7Arabic (ar)
إعادة هيكلة الكود
27.0183
8Croatian (hr)
Refaktoriranje koda
26.1022
9Russian (ru)
Рефакторинг
23.4146
10French (fr)
Réusinage de code
20.501
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Code refactoring" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Code refactoring
3 757 399
2Russian (ru)
Рефакторинг
863 531
3Japanese (ja)
リファクタリング (プログラミング)
689 073
4German (de)
Refactoring
561 514
5French (fr)
Réusinage de code
262 908
6Spanish (es)
Refactorización
255 946
7Polish (pl)
Refaktoryzacja
195 780
8Chinese (zh)
代码重构
166 759
9Portuguese (pt)
Refatoração
140 739
10Italian (it)
Refactoring
94 607
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Code refactoring" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Code refactoring
4 372
2German (de)
Refactoring
875
3Japanese (ja)
リファクタリング (プログラミング)
866
4Russian (ru)
Рефакторинг
541
5Chinese (zh)
代码重构
331
6French (fr)
Réusinage de code
330
7Spanish (es)
Refactorización
201
8Polish (pl)
Refaktoryzacja
162
9Italian (it)
Refactoring
158
10Portuguese (pt)
Refatoração
142
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Code refactoring" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Code refactoring
307
2German (de)
Refactoring
113
3French (fr)
Réusinage de code
90
4Russian (ru)
Рефакторинг
64
5Japanese (ja)
リファクタリング (プログラミング)
40
6Italian (it)
Refactoring
35
7Dutch (nl)
Refactoren
33
8Chinese (zh)
代码重构
32
9Polish (pl)
Refaktoryzacja
27
10Czech (cs)
Refaktorování
26
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Code refactoring" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Réusinage de code
1
2Arabic (ar)
إعادة هيكلة الكود
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Преработка на код
0
4Catalan (ca)
Refacció
0
5Czech (cs)
Refaktorování
0
6Danish (da)
Refactoring
0
7German (de)
Refactoring
0
8English (en)
Code refactoring
0
9Spanish (es)
Refactorización
0
10Estonian (et)
Koodi refaktoreerimine
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Code refactoring" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Réusinage de code
207
2English (en)
Code refactoring
203
3German (de)
Refactoring
84
4Russian (ru)
Рефакторинг
81
5Japanese (ja)
リファクタリング (プログラミング)
78
6Ukrainian (uk)
Рефакторинг
65
7Chinese (zh)
代码重构
57
8Korean (ko)
리팩터링
46
9Spanish (es)
Refactorización
45
10Italian (it)
Refactoring
38
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إعادة هيكلة الكود
bgBulgarian
Преработка на код
caCatalan
Refacció
csCzech
Refaktorování
daDanish
Refactoring
deGerman
Refactoring
enEnglish
Code refactoring
esSpanish
Refactorización
etEstonian
Koodi refaktoreerimine
faPersian
بازساخت کد
fiFinnish
Refaktorointi
frFrench
Réusinage de code
glGalician
Refactorización
heHebrew
Refactoring
hrCroatian
Refaktoriranje koda
huHungarian
Kódrefaktorálás
idIndonesian
Refaktorisasi kode
itItalian
Refactoring
jaJapanese
リファクタリング (プログラミング)
koKorean
리팩터링
ltLithuanian
Pertvarkymas (programavimas)
nlDutch
Refactoren
noNorwegian
Refaktorering
plPolish
Refaktoryzacja
ptPortuguese
Refatoração
roRomanian
Refactorizare de cod
ruRussian
Рефакторинг
srSerbian
Рефакторисање кода
svSwedish
Omstrukturering av kod
ukUkrainian
Рефакторинг
viVietnamese
Cải tiến mã nguồn
zhChinese
代码重构

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#32819
03.2015
Global:
#32594
03.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1586
08.2001
Global:
#1136
10.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Software refactoring from Wikipedia articles about Martin Fowler, Visual Studio Code, Spaghetti code, You arent gonna need it and Test-driven development. Whereas reading the article about Software refactoring people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Code smell, Decomposition, Rewrite, Technical debt and Extreme programming.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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