Generic programming

Generic programming - way of designing and writing programs where algorithms are written in terms of parametric types enabling easy reuse. Article "Generic programming" in English Wikipedia has 42.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 10 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Generic programming" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Generic programming", its content was written by 276 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 717 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 470 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3200 in October 2002
• Global: #5205 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #55211 in December 2014
• Global: #59439 in February 2008

There are 31 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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Generičko programiranje		43.5256
2	English (en) Generic programming		42.3415
3	Hungarian (hu) Generikus programozás		28.1948
4	Arabic (ar) برمجة عامة		27.9627
5	Serbian (sr) Generičko programiranje		27.6819
6	Chinese (zh) 泛型编程		25.0434
7	Russian (ru) Обобщённое программирование		23.0298
8	Italian (it) Programmazione generica		22.1297
9	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		21.4555
10	Swedish (sv) Generisk programmering		17.0013

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Generic programming" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Generic programming		2 178 971
2	Russian (ru) Обобщённое программирование		402 554
3	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		328 569
4	German (de) Generische Programmierung		280 654
5	Chinese (zh) 泛型编程		214 894
6	French (fr) Généricité		177 217
7	Polish (pl) Programowanie uogólnione		102 529
8	Spanish (es) Programación genérica		84 669
9	Portuguese (pt) Programação genérica		61 316
10	Czech (cs) Generické programování		38 717

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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 "Generic programming" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Generic programming		5 484
2	Russian (ru) Обобщённое программирование		723
3	Chinese (zh) 泛型编程		431
4	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		424
5	German (de) Generische Programmierung		226
6	French (fr) Généricité		217
7	Polish (pl) Programowanie uogólnione		105
8	Spanish (es) Programación genérica		71
9	Korean (ko) 제네릭 프로그래밍		62
10	Portuguese (pt) Programação genérica		54

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Generic programming		276
2	German (de) Generische Programmierung		71
3	French (fr) Généricité		53
4	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		41
5	Russian (ru) Обобщённое программирование		40
6	Chinese (zh) 泛型编程		27
7	Polish (pl) Programowanie uogólnione		20
8	Dutch (nl) Genericiteit		19
9	Serbian (sr) Generičko programiranje		18
10	Persian (fa) برنامه‌نویسی همگانی		16

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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 "Generic programming" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) برمجة عامة		2
2	English (en) Generic programming		2
3	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		1
4	Belarusian (be) Абагульненае праграмаванне		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Шаблонни типове		0
6	Catalan (ca) Programació genèrica		0
7	Czech (cs) Generické programování		0
8	German (de) Generische Programmierung		0
9	Spanish (es) Programación genérica		0
10	Estonian (et) Üldistav programmeerimine		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 "Generic programming" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Generic programming		470
2	French (fr) Généricité		199
3	Russian (ru) Обобщённое программирование		191
4	Chinese (zh) 泛型编程		178
5	Japanese (ja) ジェネリックプログラミング		154
6	Ukrainian (uk) Узагальнене програмування		123
7	Serbian (sr) Generičko programiranje		116
8	Persian (fa) برنامه‌نویسی همگانی		93
9	Czech (cs) Generické programování		68
10	Korean (ko) 제네릭 프로그래밍		68

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic برمجة عامة
be	Belarusian Абагульненае праграмаванне
bg	Bulgarian Шаблонни типове
ca	Catalan Programació genèrica
cs	Czech Generické programování
de	German Generische Programmierung
en	English Generic programming
es	Spanish Programación genérica
et	Estonian Üldistav programmeerimine
fa	Persian برنامه‌نویسی همگانی
fi	Finnish Geneerinen ohjelmointi
fr	French Généricité
he	Hebrew תכנות גנרי
hr	Croatian Generičko programiranje
hu	Hungarian Generikus programozás
hy	Armenian Ընդհանրացված ծրագրավորում
it	Italian Programmazione generica
ja	Japanese ジェネリックプログラミング
ko	Korean 제네릭 프로그래밍
nl	Dutch Genericiteit
no	Norwegian Generisk programmering
pl	Polish Programowanie uogólnione
pt	Portuguese Programação genérica
ru	Russian Обобщённое программирование
sh	Serbo-Croatian Generičko programiranje
sl	Slovenian Generično programiranje
sr	Serbian Generičko programiranje
sv	Swedish Generisk programmering
uk	Ukrainian Узагальнене програмування
vi	Vietnamese Lập trình tổng quát
zh	Chinese 泛型编程

Best Rank

English: #55211 12.2014

Global: #59439 02.2008

Best Rank

English: #3200 10.2002

Global: #5205 02.2003

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