INTERCAL

Quality:

INTERCAL - esoteric programming language. This programming language is the 149^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 134^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “INTERCAL” in English Wikipedia has 52.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 38 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.78 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 134^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 149^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “INTERCAL”, its content was written by 158 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 437 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

INTERCAL is on the 134^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 149^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in English Wikipedia and cited 659 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #519 in March 2001
• Global: #529 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5510 in August 2015
• Global: #14881 in August 2015

There are 24 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	English (en) INTERCAL		52.8131
2	Hungarian (hu) INTERCAL		50.5268
3	French (fr) INTERCAL		38.0838
4	Serbian (sr) INTERCAL		30.633
5	Italian (it) INTERCAL		29.5508
6	Catalan (ca) INTERCAL		23.6328
7	Norwegian (no) INTERCAL		22.4891
8	German (de) INTERCAL		20.1836
9	Ukrainian (uk) INTERCAL		19.6035
10	Slovak (sk) Intercal		15.7582

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) INTERCAL		1 147 004
2	German (de) INTERCAL		149 326
3	Russian (ru) INTERCAL		113 063
4	Polish (pl) INTERCAL		63 592
5	Japanese (ja) INTERCAL		56 560
6	French (fr) INTERCAL		53 789
7	Spanish (es) INTERCAL		47 469
8	Portuguese (pt) INTERCAL		27 423
9	Korean (ko) 인터칼		11 555
10	Swedish (sv) INTERCAL		5 848

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) INTERCAL		2 143
2	Japanese (ja) INTERCAL		172
3	German (de) INTERCAL		97
4	French (fr) INTERCAL		93
5	Russian (ru) INTERCAL		69
6	Polish (pl) INTERCAL		64
7	Spanish (es) INTERCAL		44
8	Norwegian (no) INTERCAL		34
9	Portuguese (pt) INTERCAL		24
10	Italian (it) INTERCAL		23

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) INTERCAL		158
2	German (de) INTERCAL		58
3	French (fr) INTERCAL		36
4	Russian (ru) INTERCAL		24
5	Spanish (es) INTERCAL		16
6	Polish (pl) INTERCAL		15
7	Hebrew (he) INTERCAL		14
8	Japanese (ja) INTERCAL		14
9	Danish (da) INTERCAL		13
10	Esperanto (eo) INTERCAL (programlingvo)		11

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	Hungarian (hu) INTERCAL		1
2	Catalan (ca) INTERCAL		0
3	Danish (da) INTERCAL		0
4	German (de) INTERCAL		0
5	English (en) INTERCAL		0
6	Esperanto (eo) INTERCAL (programlingvo)		0
7	Spanish (es) INTERCAL		0
8	Estonian (et) INTERCAL		0
9	Basque (eu) INTERCAL		0
10	French (fr) INTERCAL		0

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

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