Metacharacter

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Metacharacter

Quality:

Metacharacter - character that has a special meaning to a computer program (e.g. a shell interpreter or a regular expression engine). Article “Metacharacter” in English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Metacharacter”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 106 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in English Wikipedia and cited 42 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #13195 in January 2004
  • Global: #22419 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #147312 in June 2011
  • Global: #225042 in June 2011

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
1English (en)
Metacharacter
21.3864
2Chinese (zh)
元字符
15.1237
3Korean (ko)
메타문자
7.6344
4German (de)
Metazeichen
6.9831
5Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
1.8851
6Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
1.6246
7Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
1.0781
8Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
0.4406
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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 "Metacharacter" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Metacharacter
296 669
2German (de)
Metazeichen
76 397
3Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
30 250
4Chinese (zh)
元字符
5 118
5Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
4 592
6Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
4 544
7Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
413
8Korean (ko)
메타문자
278
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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 "Metacharacter" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Metacharacter
474
2German (de)
Metazeichen
87
3Chinese (zh)
元字符
45
4Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
34
5Korean (ko)
메타문자
18
6Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
10
7Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
10
8Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
6
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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 "Metacharacter" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Metacharacter
43
2German (de)
Metazeichen
33
3Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
11
4Chinese (zh)
元字符
6
5Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
5
6Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
4
7Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
3
8Korean (ko)
메타문자
1
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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 "Metacharacter" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
0
2German (de)
Metazeichen
0
3English (en)
Metacharacter
0
4Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
0
5Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
0
6Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
0
7Korean (ko)
메타문자
0
8Chinese (zh)
元字符
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 "Metacharacter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Metacharacter
18
2German (de)
Metazeichen
9
3Spanish (es)
Metacarácter
8
4Chinese (zh)
元字符
3
5Korean (ko)
메타문자
2
6Persian (fa)
متاکاراکتر
1
7Croatian (hr)
Metaznak
1
8Azerbaijani (az)
Metasimvol
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Global:
Popularity in all years:
English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
azAzerbaijani
Metasimvol
deGerman
Metazeichen
enEnglish
Metacharacter
esSpanish
Metacarácter
faPersian
متاکاراکتر
hrCroatian
Metaznak
koKorean
메타문자
zhChinese
元字符

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#147312
06.2011
Global:
#225042
06.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#13195
01.2004
Global:
#22419
09.2002

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Metacharacter from Wikipedia articles about Regular expression, Escape character, %, String literal and Markup language. Whereas reading the article about Metacharacter people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Escape character, Regular expression, Markup language, POSIX and Character.

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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