Greedy algorithm

Quality:

Greedy algorithm - algorithm that makes locally optimal choices in a sequence of steps with the goal of reaching a global optimum. Article “Greedy algorithm” in English Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Greedy algorithm” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Greedy algorithm”, its content was written by 200 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 824 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 451 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1806 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3951 in September 2002
• Global: #5849 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9995 in November 2019
• Global: #18715 in November 2019

There are 33 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, 2026 (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	Persian (fa) الگوریتم حریصانه		38.6326
2	English (en) Greedy algorithm		36.6527
3	Indonesian (id) Algoritma tamak		35.83
4	Italian (it) Algoritmo greedy		33.175
5	Catalan (ca) Algorisme voraç		32.3061
6	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo guloso		24.9751
7	Polish (pl) Algorytm zachłanny		24.0944
8	Slovak (sk) Pažravý algoritmus		21.9726
9	Chinese (zh) 贪心算法		21.1634
10	Ukrainian (uk) Жадібний алгоритм		18.1198

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Greedy algorithm		4 073 380
2	Russian (ru) Жадный алгоритм		531 712
3	Chinese (zh) 贪心算法		469 834
4	German (de) Greedy-Algorithmus		424 016
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo voraz		365 576
6	French (fr) Algorithme glouton		325 673
7	Polish (pl) Algorytm zachłanny		296 564
8	Japanese (ja) 貪欲法		284 216
9	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo guloso		125 265
10	Italian (it) Algoritmo greedy		118 728

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) Greedy algorithm		5 800
2	German (de) Greedy-Algorithmus		752
3	Russian (ru) Жадный алгоритм		717
4	French (fr) Algorithme glouton		697
5	Japanese (ja) 貪欲法		684
6	Chinese (zh) 贪心算法		682
7	Polish (pl) Algorytm zachłanny		411
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmo voraz		315
9	Italian (it) Algoritmo greedy		268
10	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo guloso		213

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Greedy algorithm		200
2	German (de) Greedy-Algorithmus		65
3	French (fr) Algorithme glouton		57
4	Italian (it) Algoritmo greedy		52
5	Russian (ru) Жадный алгоритм		47
6	Spanish (es) Algoritmo voraz		45
7	Persian (fa) الگوریتم حریصانه		39
8	Hebrew (he) אלגוריתם חמדן		36
9	Chinese (zh) 贪心算法		34
10	Polish (pl) Algorytm zachłanny		33

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	Catalan (ca) Algorisme voraç		1
2	English (en) Greedy algorithm		1
3	Italian (it) Algoritmo greedy		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Жадібний алгоритм		1
5	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية جشعة		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Acgöz alqoritm		0
7	Czech (cs) Hladový algoritmus		0
8	Danish (da) Grådig algoritme		0
9	German (de) Greedy-Algorithmus		0
10	Spanish (es) Algoritmo voraz		0

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

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