Halting problem

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Halting problem

Quality:

Halting problem - problem of determining whether a given program will finish running or continue forever. Article “Halting problem” in English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 57 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.7 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Halting problem” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Halting problem”, its content was written by 324 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1068 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 476 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1597 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #825 in September 2001
  • Global: #917 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #20779 in September 2013
  • Global: #30954 in January 2020

There are 34 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Halting problem
49.2739
2Romanian (ro)
Problema opririi
40.4572
3German (de)
Halteproblem
20.0069
4French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
19.7439
5Greek (el)
Πρόβλημα τερματισμού
19.7195
6Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
17.0281
7Catalan (ca)
Problema de la parada
14.6612
8Chinese (zh)
停机问题
14.2877
9Finnish (fi)
Pysähtymisongelma
12.7725
10Bulgarian (bg)
Стоп-проблем
12.4835
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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 "Halting problem" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Halting problem
4 739 407
2German (de)
Halteproblem
665 013
3Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
402 230
4Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
318 463
5Chinese (zh)
停机问题
313 870
6Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
252 253
7French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
232 490
8Polish (pl)
Problem stopu
144 808
9Italian (it)
Problema della terminazione
140 300
10Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
128 862
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Halting problem" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Halting problem
15 600
2German (de)
Halteproblem
3 382
3Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
1 659
4Chinese (zh)
停机问题
1 139
5Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
853
6French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
737
7Polish (pl)
Problem stopu
440
8Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
381
9Italian (it)
Problema della terminazione
327
10Hebrew (he)
בעיית העצירה
227
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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 "Halting problem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Halting problem
324
2German (de)
Halteproblem
126
3French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
73
4Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
57
5Hebrew (he)
בעיית העצירה
49
6Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
46
7Italian (it)
Problema della terminazione
40
8Chinese (zh)
停机问题
40
9Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
33
10Dutch (nl)
Stopprobleem
31
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Halting problem" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
停机问题
3
2English (en)
Halting problem
2
3Arabic (ar)
مسألة توقف
1
4Bulgarian (bg)
Стоп-проблем
0
5Catalan (ca)
Problema de la parada
0
6Czech (cs)
Problém zastavení
0
7Danish (da)
Halting-problemet
0
8German (de)
Halteproblem
0
9Greek (el)
Πρόβλημα τερματισμού
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Problemo de halto
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 "Halting problem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Halting problem
476
2French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
159
3Chinese (zh)
停机问题
130
4Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
103
5Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
75
6Korean (ko)
정지 문제
71
7Ukrainian (uk)
Проблема зупинки
67
8German (de)
Halteproblem
62
9Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
45
10Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
42
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مسألة توقف
bgBulgarian
Стоп-проблем
caCatalan
Problema de la parada
csCzech
Problém zastavení
daDanish
Halting-problemet
deGerman
Halteproblem
elGreek
Πρόβλημα τερματισμού
enEnglish
Halting problem
eoEsperanto
Problemo de halto
esSpanish
Problema de la parada
faPersian
مسئله توقف
fiFinnish
Pysähtymisongelma
frFrench
Problème de l'arrêt
glGalician
Problema da parada
heHebrew
בעיית העצירה
hiHindi
हॉल्टिंग प्रॉब्लम
hrCroatian
Problem zaustavljanja
itItalian
Problema della terminazione
jaJapanese
停止性問題
koKorean
정지 문제
nlDutch
Stopprobleem
plPolish
Problem stopu
ptPortuguese
Problema da parada
roRomanian
Problema opririi
ruRussian
Проблема остановки
simpleSimple English
Halting problem
skSlovak
Problém zastavenia
srSerbian
Халтинг проблем
svSwedish
Stopproblemet
thThai
ปัญหาการยุติการทำงาน
trTurkish
Sonlanma problemi
ukUkrainian
Проблема зупинки
viVietnamese
Bài toán dừng
zhChinese
停机问题

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#20779
09.2013
Global:
#30954
01.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#825
09.2001
Global:
#917
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Halting problem from Wikipedia articles about Gödels incompleteness theorems, Alan Turing, Turing machine, Undecidable problem and Oracle machine. Whereas reading the article about Halting problem people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Turing machine, Undecidable problem, Busy beaver, Gödels incompleteness theorems and Collatz conjecture.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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