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Forward compatibility

Quality:

Forward compatibility - design characteristic that allows a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself. Article “Forward compatibility” in English Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.08 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Forward compatibility”, its content was written by 104 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 171 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 282 times in English Wikipedia and cited 348 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #35790 in August 2003
  • Global: #48353 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #236267 in October 2008
  • Global: #355568 in February 2008

There are 11 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Catalan (ca)
Compatibilitat cap endavant
30.3742
2English (en)
Forward compatibility
27.6952
3Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
18.1477
4Chinese (zh)
向前兼容
15.7397
5Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
14.2721
6Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
13.4536
7Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
7.414
8Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
1.9159
9Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
1.4734
10Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
1.2296
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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 "Forward compatibility" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Forward compatibility
490 588
2Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
75 555
3Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
23 534
4Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
7 931
5Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
6 741
6Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
3 607
7Chinese (zh)
向前兼容
3 529
8Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
2 825
9Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
2 082
10Norwegian (no)
Fremoverkompatibilitet
512
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Forward compatibility" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Forward compatibility
2 639
2Chinese (zh)
向前兼容
83
3Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
50
4Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
30
5Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
26
6Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
17
7Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
13
8Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
13
9Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
12
10Norwegian (no)
Fremoverkompatibilitet
8
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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 "Forward compatibility" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Forward compatibility
104
2Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
23
3Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
12
4Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
7
5Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
5
6Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
5
7Catalan (ca)
Compatibilitat cap endavant
4
8Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
3
9Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
3
10Norwegian (no)
Fremoverkompatibilitet
3
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Forward compatibility" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
1
2Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
0
3Catalan (ca)
Compatibilitat cap endavant
0
4Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
0
5English (en)
Forward compatibility
0
6Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
0
7Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
0
8Norwegian (no)
Fremoverkompatibilitet
0
9Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
0
10Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
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 "Forward compatibility" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Forward compatibility
282
2Korean (ko)
상위 호환성
23
3Czech (cs)
Dopředná kompatibilita
11
4Chinese (zh)
向前兼容
8
5Arabic (ar)
توافقية مستقبلية
7
6Spanish (es)
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
5
7Polish (pl)
Kompatybilność w przód
3
8Turkish (tr)
İleriye uyumluluk
3
9Catalan (ca)
Compatibilitat cap endavant
2
10Dutch (nl)
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
توافقية مستقبلية
caCatalan
Compatibilitat cap endavant
csCzech
Dopředná kompatibilita
enEnglish
Forward compatibility
esSpanish
Compatibilidad hacia adelante
koKorean
상위 호환성
nlDutch
Voorwaartse compatibiliteit
noNorwegian
Fremoverkompatibilitet
plPolish
Kompatybilność w przód
trTurkish
İleriye uyumluluk
zhChinese
向前兼容

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#236267
10.2008
Global:
#355568
02.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35790
08.2003
Global:
#48353
08.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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