Fork (software development)

Fork - new program, and line of software development, derived from an existing one. Article "Fork (software development)" in English Wikipedia has 34.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Fork (software development)", its content was written by 199 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 808 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1427 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3114 in October 2003
• Global: #5604 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47748 in April 2015
• Global: #25280 in August 2011

There are 34 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Fork		44.1623
2	Chinese (zh) 分叉 (软件开发)		39.4768
3	Hungarian (hu) Fork (szoftverfejlesztés)		35.7981
4	English (en) Fork (software development)		34.7123
5	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		30.5795
6	Finnish (fi) Forkkaus		28.7607
7	Croatian (hr) Fork (razvitak softvera)		26.4669
8	Thai (th) ฟอร์ก (การพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์)		24.6871
9	Romanian (ro) Fork (dezvoltare software)		22.5726
10	Indonesian (id) Fork (pengembangan perangkat lunak)		22.091

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fork (software development)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (software development)		2 406 153
2	Russian (ru) Форк		640 018
3	German (de) Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)		408 375
4	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		404 352
5	French (fr) Fork (développement logiciel)		369 547
6	Polish (pl) Fork		217 841
7	Japanese (ja) フォーク (ソフトウェア開発)		205 782
8	Portuguese (pt) Bifurcação (desenvolvimento de software)		156 221
9	Italian (it) Fork (sviluppo software)		137 625
10	Dutch (nl) Fork (ontwikkeling)		49 333

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Fork (software development)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (software development)		9 274
2	Russian (ru) Форк		1 415
3	German (de) Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)		871
4	French (fr) Fork (développement logiciel)		693
5	Japanese (ja) フォーク (ソフトウェア開発)		464
6	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		460
7	Chinese (zh) 分叉 (软件开发)		345
8	Polish (pl) Fork		260
9	Italian (it) Fork (sviluppo software)		205
10	Korean (ko) 포크 (소프트웨어 개발)		180

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Fork (software development)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork (software development)		199
2	German (de) Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)		98
3	French (fr) Fork (développement logiciel)		63
4	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		57
5	Russian (ru) Форк		55
6	Italian (it) Fork (sviluppo software)		45
7	Polish (pl) Fork		44
8	Dutch (nl) Fork (ontwikkeling)		28
9	Japanese (ja) フォーク (ソフトウェア開発)		26
10	Chinese (zh) 分叉 (软件开发)		23

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Fork (software development)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 分叉 (软件开发)		2
2	Arabic (ar) تفرع معدل (برمجة)		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Форк		0
4	Catalan (ca) Fork		0
5	Czech (cs) Fork		0
6	Danish (da) Forgrening (softwareudvikling)		0
7	German (de) Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)		0
8	Greek (el) Παρακλάδι (πληροφορική)		0
9	English (en) Fork (software development)		0
10	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Fork (software development)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fork (software development)		1 427
2	Russian (ru) Форк		564
3	German (de) Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)		508
4	French (fr) Fork (développement logiciel)		391
5	Japanese (ja) フォーク (ソフトウェア開発)		381
6	Italian (it) Fork (sviluppo software)		314
7	Portuguese (pt) Bifurcação (desenvolvimento de software)		300
8	Chinese (zh) 分叉 (软件开发)		276
9	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)		269
10	Korean (ko) 포크 (소프트웨어 개발)		217

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تفرع معدل (برمجة)
bg	Bulgarian Форк
ca	Catalan Fork
cs	Czech Fork
da	Danish Forgrening (softwareudvikling)
de	German Abspaltung (Softwareentwicklung)
el	Greek Παρακλάδι (πληροφορική)
en	English Fork (software development)
es	Spanish Bifurcación (desarrollo de software)
eu	Basque Fork
fa	Persian انشعاب (توسعه نرم‌افزار)
fi	Finnish Forkkaus
fr	French Fork (développement logiciel)
he	Hebrew פיצול (פיתוח תוכנה)
hr	Croatian Fork (razvitak softvera)
hu	Hungarian Fork (szoftverfejlesztés)
id	Indonesian Fork (pengembangan perangkat lunak)
it	Italian Fork (sviluppo software)
ja	Japanese フォーク (ソフトウェア開発)
ko	Korean 포크 (소프트웨어 개발)
nl	Dutch Fork (ontwikkeling)
no	Norwegian Forgrening
pl	Polish Fork
pt	Portuguese Bifurcação (desenvolvimento de software)
ro	Romanian Fork (dezvoltare software)
ru	Russian Форк
simple	Simple English Fork (software development)
sk	Slovak Fork
sr	Serbian Форк (развој софтвера)
sv	Swedish Fork
th	Thai ฟอร์ก (การพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์)
tr	Turkish Çatal (yazılım geliştirme)
uk	Ukrainian Форк
zh	Chinese 分叉 (软件开发)

Best Rank

English: #47748 04.2015

Global: #25280 08.2011

Best Rank

English: #3114 10.2003

Global: #5604 12.2002

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