Freeze (software engineering)

Freeze - in software engineering, development phase during which policy restricts making changes to the system. Article “Freeze (software engineering)” in English Wikipedia has 7.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.41 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Freeze (software engineering)”, its content was written by 29 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 79 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in English Wikipedia and cited 42 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #118467 in February 2016
• Global: #180147 in May 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #124071 in December 2008
• Global: #190210 in December 2008

There are 7 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	German (de) Code-Freeze		16.1634
2	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		13.5002
3	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		9.5158
4	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		7.7684
5	French (fr) Feature freeze		1.7179
6	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		0.4815
7	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		0.4745

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Freeze (software engineering)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		480 394
2	German (de) Code-Freeze		68 723
3	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		35 960
4	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		26 881
5	French (fr) Feature freeze		4 809
6	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		1 013
7	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		405

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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 "Freeze (software engineering)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		1 029
2	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		90
3	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		83
4	German (de) Code-Freeze		69
5	French (fr) Feature freeze		27
6	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		9
7	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		29
2	German (de) Code-Freeze		22
3	French (fr) Feature freeze		12
4	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		7
5	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		4
6	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		3
7	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		2

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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 "Freeze (software engineering)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Code-Freeze		0
2	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		0
3	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		0
4	French (fr) Feature freeze		0
5	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		0
6	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		0
7	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		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 "Freeze (software engineering)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Freeze (software engineering)		23
2	German (de) Code-Freeze		6
3	Russian (ru) Заморозка (программное обеспечение)		5
4	Japanese (ja) フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)		4
5	French (fr) Feature freeze		3
6	Norwegian (no) Kodefrysing		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Kodblokado		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Code-Freeze
en	English Freeze (software engineering)
eo	Esperanto Kodblokado
fr	French Feature freeze
ja	Japanese フリーズ (ソフトウェア工学)
no	Norwegian Kodefrysing
ru	Russian Заморозка (программное обеспечение)

Best Rank

English: #124071 12.2008

Global: #190210 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #118467 02.2016

Global: #180147 05.2014

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