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PL/I - procedural, imperative computer programming language. This programming language is the 96th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 98th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “PL/I” in English Wikipedia has 67.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 114 references and 37 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.

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 96th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “PL/I” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “PL/I”, its content was written by 309 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 913 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

PL/I is on the 98th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 96th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 321 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2551 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #941 in February 2005
  • Global: #1503 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #70609 in July 2008
  • Global: #26980 in November 2025

There are 30 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
PL/I
67.8072
2Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
22.2108
3Korean (ko)
PL/I
19.7719
4Finnish (fi)
PL/I
19.1642
5French (fr)
PL/I
18.9981
6Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
17.2372
7Belarusian (be)
ПЛ/1
16.3519
8Bulgarian (bg)
PL/I
16.044
9Malay (ms)
Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
15.905
10Japanese (ja)
PL/I
14.495
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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 "PL/I" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
PL/I
1 658 960
2Japanese (ja)
PL/I
303 000
3German (de)
PL/I
231 965
4Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
212 569
5Spanish (es)
PL/1
162 799
6French (fr)
PL/I
110 662
7Polish (pl)
PL/I
95 057
8Chinese (zh)
PL/I
62 260
9Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
60 940
10Italian (it)
PL/I
56 108
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "PL/I" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
PL/I
8 544
2Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
1 501
3Japanese (ja)
PL/I
848
4German (de)
PL/I
503
5Spanish (es)
PL/1
392
6French (fr)
PL/I
368
7Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
243
8Chinese (zh)
PL/I
234
9Italian (it)
PL/I
204
10Czech (cs)
PL/I
67
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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 "PL/I" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
PL/I
309
2French (fr)
PL/I
82
3German (de)
PL/I
79
4Italian (it)
PL/I
57
5Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
55
6Hebrew (he)
PL/I
41
7Japanese (ja)
PL/I
37
8Dutch (nl)
PL/1
33
9Polish (pl)
PL/I
24
10Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
22
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "PL/I" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
PL/I
1
2Belarusian (be)
ПЛ/1
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
PL/I
0
4Catalan (ca)
PL/I
0
5Czech (cs)
PL/I
0
6Danish (da)
PL/I
0
7German (de)
PL/I
0
8Spanish (es)
PL/1
0
9Estonian (et)
PL/I
0
10Persian (fa)
پی‌ال/۱
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 "PL/I" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
PL/I
321
2Polish (pl)
PL/I
250
3Chinese (zh)
PL/I
221
4Ukrainian (uk)
PL/I
198
5French (fr)
PL/I
178
6Japanese (ja)
PL/I
165
7Norwegian (no)
PL/I
157
8Czech (cs)
PL/I
130
9Dutch (nl)
PL/1
99
10Italian (it)
PL/I
98
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
beBelarusian
ПЛ/1
bgBulgarian
PL/I
caCatalan
PL/I
csCzech
PL/I
daDanish
PL/I
deGerman
PL/I
enEnglish
PL/I
esSpanish
PL/1
etEstonian
PL/I
faPersian
پی‌ال/۱
fiFinnish
PL/I
frFrench
PL/I
glGalician
PL/1
heHebrew
PL/I
hrCroatian
PL/1
huHungarian
PL/I
itItalian
PL/I
jaJapanese
PL/I
koKorean
PL/I
msMalay
Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
nlDutch
PL/1
noNorwegian
PL/I
plPolish
PL/I
ptPortuguese
PL/I
ruRussian
ПЛ/1
shSerbo-Croatian
PL/I
skSlovak
PL/I
svSwedish
PL/1
ukUkrainian
PL/I
zhChinese
PL/I

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#70609
07.2008 		Global:
#26980
11.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#941
02.2005 		Global:
#1503
11.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on PL/I from Wikipedia articles about Multics, COBOL, B, C and PL/M. Whereas reading the article about PL/I people most often go to Wikipedia articles on COBOL, Fortran, ALGOL, Timeline of programming languages and PL/M.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: PL/I
ja: PL/I
de: PL/I
ru: ПЛ/1
es: PL/1
fr: PL/I
pl: PL/I
zh: PL/I
pt: PL/I
it: PL/I
nl: PL/1
ko: PL/I
cs: PL/I
he: PL/I
bg: PL/I
fi: PL/I
hu: PL/I
fa: پی‌ال/۱
sk: PL/I
da: PL/I
sv: PL/1
et: PL/I
sh: PL/I
ms: Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
ca: PL/I
gl: PL/1
no: PL/I
hr: PL/1
uk: PL/I
be: ПЛ/1

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