Instance (computer science)

Instance - object that is a concrete manifestation of a class in software development. Article “Instance (computer science)” in English Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Instance (computer science)”, its content was written by 81 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 249 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 82 times in English Wikipedia and cited 523 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #32873 in September 2004
• Global: #48996 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #94666 in June 2013
• Global: #77145 in April 2013

There are 17 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	Indonesian (id) Instans		26.0928
2	English (en) Instance (computer science)		24.9663
3	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		23.2931
4	Chinese (zh) 實例		17.0471
5	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		16.5518
6	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		15.4095
7	Arabic (ar) مثيل (برمجة كائنية التوجه)		15.1608
8	Ukrainian (uk) Примірник (комп'ютерні науки)		14.3064
9	Norwegian (no) Instans (informatikk)		14.0503
10	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		12.6248

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Instance (computer science)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Instance (computer science)		1 176 606
2	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		630 329
3	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		412 395
4	Portuguese (pt) Instância (ciência da computação)		406 276
5	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		250 197
6	Polish (pl) Instancja (programowanie)		151 886
7	Korean (ko) 인스턴스 (컴퓨터 과학)		51 343
8	Chinese (zh) 實例		28 347
9	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		14 100
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thực thể (khoa học máy tính)		7 918

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Instance (computer science)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Instance (computer science)		698
2	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		279
3	Chinese (zh) 實例		188
4	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		146
5	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		112
6	Polish (pl) Instancja (programowanie)		85
7	Portuguese (pt) Instância (ciência da computação)		83
8	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		30
9	Korean (ko) 인스턴스 (컴퓨터 과학)		27
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thực thể (khoa học máy tính)		21

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Instance (computer science)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Instance (computer science)		81
2	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		34
3	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		28
4	Portuguese (pt) Instância (ciência da computação)		26
5	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		25
6	Polish (pl) Instancja (programowanie)		13
7	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		7
8	Hungarian (hu) Példány (számítógépes programozás)		7
9	Korean (ko) 인스턴스 (컴퓨터 과학)		6
10	Chinese (zh) 實例		5

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Instance (computer science)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مثيل (برمجة كائنية التوجه)		1
2	Azerbaijani (az) Örnək (informatika)		0
3	Czech (cs) Instance (informatika)		0
4	English (en) Instance (computer science)		0
5	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		0
7	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Példány (számítógépes programozás)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Instans		0
10	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Instance (computer science)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Instance (programmation)		152
2	Japanese (ja) インスタンス		93
3	English (en) Instance (computer science)		82
4	Portuguese (pt) Instância (ciência da computação)		39
5	Chinese (zh) 實例		37
6	Spanish (es) Instancia (informática)		26
7	Polish (pl) Instancja (programowanie)		21
8	Hungarian (hu) Példány (számítógépes programozás)		16
9	Korean (ko) 인스턴스 (컴퓨터 과학)		14
10	Finnish (fi) Instanssi (ohjelmointi)		8

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مثيل (برمجة كائنية التوجه)
az	Azerbaijani Örnək (informatika)
cs	Czech Instance (informatika)
en	English Instance (computer science)
es	Spanish Instancia (informática)
fi	Finnish Instanssi (ohjelmointi)
fr	French Instance (programmation)
hu	Hungarian Példány (számítógépes programozás)
id	Indonesian Instans
ja	Japanese インスタンス
ko	Korean 인스턴스 (컴퓨터 과학)
no	Norwegian Instans (informatikk)
pl	Polish Instancja (programowanie)
pt	Portuguese Instância (ciência da computação)
uk	Ukrainian Примірник (комп'ютерні науки)
vi	Vietnamese Thực thể (khoa học máy tính)
zh	Chinese 實例

Best Rank

English: #94666 06.2013

Global: #77145 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #32873 09.2004

Global: #48996 06.2003

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.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information