Merge sort

Quality:

Merge sort - worst-case optimal stable divide and conquer comparison sorting algorithm. Article "Merge sort" in English Wikipedia has 66.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 36 references and 21 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Merge sort" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Merge sort", its content was written by 423 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1456 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 148 times in English Wikipedia and cited 983 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #776 in October 2001
• Global: #935 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3778 in October 2014
• Global: #8013 in October 2014

There are 41 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Merge sort		66.0675
2	Hungarian (hu) Összefésüléses rendezés		59.0891
3	German (de) Mergesort		44.9603
4	Estonian (et) Mestimissortimine		37.1043
5	Greek (el) Ταξινόμηση με συγχώνευση		34.7336
6	Chinese (zh) 归并排序		32.9035
7	Serbian (sr) Sortiranje spajanjem		29.8364
8	Portuguese (pt) Merge sort		28.9679
9	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez scalanie		27.8119
10	Vietnamese (vi) Sắp xếp trộn		24.1432

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merge sort		9 445 682
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка слиянием		1 100 626
3	German (de) Mergesort		913 051
4	Portuguese (pt) Merge sort		554 911
5	Japanese (ja) マージソート		529 412
6	French (fr) Tri fusion		515 742
7	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por mezcla		499 305
8	Chinese (zh) 归并排序		493 538
9	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez scalanie		474 760
10	Italian (it) Merge sort		342 077

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) Merge sort		20 667
2	Russian (ru) Сортировка слиянием		3 792
3	German (de) Mergesort		3 558
4	Japanese (ja) マージソート		2 277
5	Italian (it) Merge sort		1 124
6	Chinese (zh) 归并排序		970
7	Hebrew (he) מיון מיזוג		818
8	French (fr) Tri fusion		747
9	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por mezcla		656
10	Portuguese (pt) Merge sort		601

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merge sort		423
2	German (de) Mergesort		156
3	Chinese (zh) 归并排序		83
4	French (fr) Tri fusion		75
5	Italian (it) Merge sort		72
6	Portuguese (pt) Merge sort		58
7	Russian (ru) Сортировка слиянием		56
8	Polish (pl) Sortowanie przez scalanie		49
9	Hebrew (he) מיון מיזוג		45
10	Spanish (es) Ordenamiento por mezcla		41

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	Turkish (tr) Birleştirmeli sıralama		2
2	English (en) Merge sort		1
3	Arabic (ar) تصنيف دمجي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Birləşdirməli nizamlama		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Сортиране чрез сливане		0
6	Czech (cs) Řazení slučováním		0
7	Danish (da) Flettesortering		0
8	German (de) Mergesort		0
9	Greek (el) Ταξινόμηση με συγχώνευση		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Kunfanda ordigo		0

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

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