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Include guard

Quality:

#include guard - construct in C and C++ for idempotent header inclusion. Article “Include guard” in English Wikipedia has 22.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.17 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Include guard”, its content was written by 54 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 145 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in English Wikipedia and cited 61 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #99215 in February 2023
  • Global: #110912 in June 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #105274 in February 2015
  • Global: #153242 in November 2014

There are 8 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
1German (de)
Include-Guard
28.6132
2English (en)
Include guard
22.2716
3Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
12.1586
4Chinese (zh)
Include防範
9.7225
5Italian (it)
Include guard
8.1955
6Russian (ru)
Include guard
5.8308
7French (fr)
Include guard
3.7061
8Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
3.0823
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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 "Include guard" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Include guard
1 181 868
2Russian (ru)
Include guard
123 811
3German (de)
Include-Guard
77 608
4Chinese (zh)
Include防範
42 534
5French (fr)
Include guard
28 055
6Italian (it)
Include guard
21 773
7Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
5 537
8Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
3 382
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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 "Include guard" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Include guard
2 662
2Russian (ru)
Include guard
171
3German (de)
Include-Guard
122
4French (fr)
Include guard
52
5Chinese (zh)
Include防範
48
6Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
22
7Italian (it)
Include guard
17
8Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
10
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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 "Include guard" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Include guard
54
2German (de)
Include-Guard
24
3Italian (it)
Include guard
18
4Russian (ru)
Include guard
16
5French (fr)
Include guard
12
6Chinese (zh)
Include防範
12
7Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
6
8Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
3
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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 "Include guard" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Include-Guard
1
2Russian (ru)
Include guard
1
3English (en)
Include guard
0
4Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
0
5French (fr)
Include guard
0
6Italian (it)
Include guard
0
7Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
0
8Chinese (zh)
Include防範
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 "Include guard" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Include guard
16
2Italian (it)
Include guard
16
3German (de)
Include-Guard
8
4Russian (ru)
Include guard
8
5Chinese (zh)
Include防範
6
6Persian (fa)
اینکلود گارد
3
7French (fr)
Include guard
3
8Portuguese (pt)
Include guard
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Include-Guard
enEnglish
Include guard
faPersian
اینکلود گارد
frFrench
Include guard
itItalian
Include guard
ptPortuguese
Include guard
ruRussian
Include guard
zhChinese
Include防範

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#105274
02.2015
Global:
#153242
11.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#99215
02.2023
Global:
#110912
06.2008

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on #include guard from Wikipedia articles about #pragma once, C preprocessor, Idempotence, One Definition Rule and Unity build. Whereas reading the article about #include guard people most often go to Wikipedia articles on #pragma once, One Definition Rule, C preprocessor, Include directive and Transclusion.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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