Fortran

Quality:

Fortran - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 16^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Fortran" in English Wikipedia has 81.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 88 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 16^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9873^rd most popular in AI.

The 17^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Fortran" was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Fortran", its content was written by 650 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2469 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9873^rd place).

Fortran is on the 16^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1944 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9377 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #221 in August 2001
• Global: #252 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4957 in January 2008
• Global: #5723 in January 2008

There are 51 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 August 1, 2024 (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	English (en) Fortran		81.745
2	Ukrainian (uk) Фортран		80.0998
3	French (fr) Fortran		77.2057
4	Chinese (zh) Fortran		74.8547
5	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		56.2127
6	Russian (ru) Фортран		55.4131
7	German (de) Fortran		51.5859
8	Catalan (ca) Fortran		49.1424
9	Armenian (hy) Ֆորտրան		41.6317
10	Hungarian (hu) Fortran		39.0326

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fortran		9 697 209
2	Spanish (es) Fortran		1 442 545
3	Japanese (ja) Fortran		1 283 066
4	Russian (ru) Фортран		1 272 843
5	German (de) Fortran		1 104 422
6	French (fr) Fortran		757 741
7	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		541 929
8	Chinese (zh) Fortran		483 449
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		414 250
10	Italian (it) Fortran		412 261

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fortran		33 177
2	Russian (ru) Фортран		4 178
3	German (de) Fortran		3 602
4	Japanese (ja) Fortran		3 057
5	Spanish (es) Fortran		2 410
6	French (fr) Fortran		1 981
7	Chinese (zh) Fortran		1 781
8	Italian (it) Fortran		1 273
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		1 016
10	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		943

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fortran		650
2	German (de) Fortran		180
3	French (fr) Fortran		156
4	Russian (ru) Фортран		125
5	Japanese (ja) Fortran		115
6	Italian (it) Fortran		94
7	Spanish (es) Fortran		92
8	Dutch (nl) Fortran		79
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		77
10	Chinese (zh) Fortran		60

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fortran		7
2	German (de) Fortran		1
3	Japanese (ja) Fortran		1
4	Polish (pl) Fortran		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		1
6	Slovenian (sl) Fortran		1
7	Thai (th) ภาษาฟอร์แทรน		1
8	Arabic (ar) فورتران		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Fortran		0
10	Belarusian (be) Fortran		0

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

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