M4 (computer language)

M4 - traditional UNIX macro processor. This programming language is the 208^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 186^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "M4 (computer language)" in English Wikipedia has 23.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "M4 (computer language)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "M4 (computer language)", its content was written by 112 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

M4 is on the 186^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 208^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 249 times in English Wikipedia and cited 665 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6460 in April 2002
• Global: #7311 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31648 in May 2019
• Global: #68200 in May 2019

There are 14 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Finnish (fi) M4 (makrokieli)		26.09
2	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		24.7427
3	English (en) M4 (computer language)		23.3443
4	Russian (ru) M4 (макропроцессор)		20.6866
5	Spanish (es) M4 (lenguaje de programación)		15.6876
6	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		15.0359
7	French (fr) M4 (langage)		10.9643
8	Chinese (zh) M4語言		8.9938
9	Arabic (ar) إم 4 (معالج)		8.6798
10	Greek (el) M4 (γλώσσα προγραμματισμού)		7.8142

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

The most popular language versions of the article "M4 (computer language)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) M4 (computer language)		667 037
2	Russian (ru) M4 (макропроцессор)		58 198
3	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		47 445
4	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		42 803
5	French (fr) M4 (langage)		18 952
6	Polish (pl) M4 (informatyka)		16 484
7	Chinese (zh) M4語言		16 376
8	Korean (ko) M4 (프로그래밍 언어)		10 355
9	Arabic (ar) إم 4 (معالج)		5 400
10	Czech (cs) M4 (makroprocesor)		4 987

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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 "M4 (computer language)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) M4 (computer language)		2 156
2	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		126
3	Russian (ru) M4 (макропроцессор)		105
4	Chinese (zh) M4語言		92
5	French (fr) M4 (langage)		81
6	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		66
7	Spanish (es) M4 (lenguaje de programación)		21
8	Finnish (fi) M4 (makrokieli)		20
9	Polish (pl) M4 (informatyka)		16
10	Ukrainian (uk) M4 (мова програмування)		16

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

Language versions of the article "M4 (computer language)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) M4 (computer language)		112
2	French (fr) M4 (langage)		28
3	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		25
4	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		16
5	Polish (pl) M4 (informatyka)		12
6	Chinese (zh) M4語言		11
7	Arabic (ar) إم 4 (معالج)		9
8	Czech (cs) M4 (makroprocesor)		8
9	Greek (el) M4 (γλώσσα προγραμματισμού)		7
10	Spanish (es) M4 (lenguaje de programación)		7

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

Language versions of the article "M4 (computer language)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) M4 (computer language)		1
2	Arabic (ar) إم 4 (معالج)		0
3	Czech (cs) M4 (makroprocesor)		0
4	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		0
5	Greek (el) M4 (γλώσσα προγραμματισμού)		0
6	Spanish (es) M4 (lenguaje de programación)		0
7	Finnish (fi) M4 (makrokieli)		0
8	French (fr) M4 (langage)		0
9	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		0
10	Korean (ko) M4 (프로그래밍 언어)		0

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

Language versions of the article "M4 (computer language)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) M4 (computer language)		249
2	Russian (ru) M4 (макропроцессор)		184
3	Japanese (ja) M4 (プログラミング言語)		138
4	German (de) M4 (Programmiersprache)		14
5	French (fr) M4 (langage)		13
6	Ukrainian (uk) M4 (мова програмування)		12
7	Korean (ko) M4 (프로그래밍 언어)		11
8	Chinese (zh) M4語言		8
9	Arabic (ar) إم 4 (معالج)		7
10	Czech (cs) M4 (makroprocesor)		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إم 4 (معالج)
cs	Czech M4 (makroprocesor)
de	German M4 (Programmiersprache)
el	Greek M4 (γλώσσα προγραμματισμού)
en	English M4 (computer language)
es	Spanish M4 (lenguaje de programación)
fi	Finnish M4 (makrokieli)
fr	French M4 (langage)
ja	Japanese M4 (プログラミング言語)
ko	Korean M4 (프로그래밍 언어)
pl	Polish M4 (informatyka)
ru	Russian M4 (макропроцессор)
uk	Ukrainian M4 (мова програмування)
zh	Chinese M4語言

Best Rank

English: #31648 05.2019

Global: #68200 05.2019

Best Rank

English: #6460 04.2002

Global: #7311 04.2002

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