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 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 53 references and 23 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Halting problem" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Halting problem", its content was written by 317 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1050 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 486 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1589 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #819 in September 2001
  • Global: #911 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #20646 in September 2013
  • Global: #31071 in January 2020

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, 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
1English (en)
Halting problem
48.3459
2German (de)
Halteproblem
20.2546
3French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
19.7879
4Greek (el)
Πρόβλημα τερματισμού
19.5674
5Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
17.1844
6Catalan (ca)
Problema de la parada
14.6158
7Bulgarian (bg)
Стоп-проблем
13.5738
8Finnish (fi)
Pysähtymisongelma
12.763
9Arabic (ar)
مسألة توقف
12.411
10Croatian (hr)
Problem zaustavljanja
12.1389
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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
4 533 381
2German (de)
Halteproblem
641 659
3Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
384 058
4Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
300 074
5Chinese (zh)
停机问题
297 716
6Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
246 243
7French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
221 944
8Polish (pl)
Problem stopu
139 382
9Italian (it)
Problema della terminazione
136 213
10Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
125 951
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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 "Halting problem" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Halting problem
24 877
2Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
1 884
3German (de)
Halteproblem
1 495
4Chinese (zh)
停机问题
1 307
5Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
1 260
6French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
780
7Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
562
8Simple English (simple)
Halting problem
547
9Polish (pl)
Problem stopu
511
10Italian (it)
Problema della terminazione
481
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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
317
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
36
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 2025

Language versions of the article "Halting problem" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Halting problem
1
2French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
1
3Arabic (ar)
مسألة توقف
0
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
486
2French (fr)
Problème de l'arrêt
160
3Chinese (zh)
停机问题
118
4Japanese (ja)
停止性問題
97
5Korean (ko)
정지 문제
75
6Portuguese (pt)
Problema da parada
72
7Ukrainian (uk)
Проблема зупинки
65
8German (de)
Halteproblem
62
9Spanish (es)
Problema de la parada
48
10Russian (ru)
Проблема остановки
46
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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
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:
#20646
09.2013
Global:
#31071
01.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#819
09.2001
Global:
#911
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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 Quantum computing. 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 Cantors diagonal argument.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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