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PL/I - procedural, imperative computer programming language. This programming language is the 99th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 97th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “PL/I” in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 111 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 99th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “PL/I” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “PL/I”, its content was written by 299 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 893 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

PL/I is on the 97th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 99th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 338 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2557 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #942 in February 2005
  • Global: #1501 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #70126 in July 2008
  • Global: #65770 in July 2008

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, 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)
PL/I
67.5083
2Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
22.2611
3French (fr)
PL/I
20.0282
4Korean (ko)
PL/I
19.8006
5Finnish (fi)
PL/I
19.1361
6Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
18.1224
7Bulgarian (bg)
PL/I
16.9978
8Belarusian (be)
ПЛ/1
16.6526
9Malay (ms)
Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
14.9145
10Japanese (ja)
PL/I
14.5609
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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
1 578 731
2Japanese (ja)
PL/I
286 870
3German (de)
PL/I
224 818
4Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
191 901
5Spanish (es)
PL/1
155 586
6French (fr)
PL/I
100 562
7Polish (pl)
PL/I
86 952
8Chinese (zh)
PL/I
53 212
9Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
47 783
10Italian (it)
PL/I
46 683
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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 "PL/I" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
PL/I
5 282
2Japanese (ja)
PL/I
659
3German (de)
PL/I
642
4Spanish (es)
PL/1
498
5Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
434
6Italian (it)
PL/I
356
7French (fr)
PL/I
322
8Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
258
9Chinese (zh)
PL/I
225
10Dutch (nl)
PL/1
90
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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
299
2German (de)
PL/I
81
3French (fr)
PL/I
79
4Italian (it)
PL/I
57
5Russian (ru)
ПЛ/1
53
6Hebrew (he)
PL/I
40
7Japanese (ja)
PL/I
37
8Dutch (nl)
PL/1
33
9Polish (pl)
PL/I
24
10Portuguese (pt)
PL/I
21
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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 "PL/I" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Polish (pl)
PL/I
2
2English (en)
PL/I
1
3Belarusian (be)
ПЛ/1
0
4Bulgarian (bg)
PL/I
0
5Catalan (ca)
PL/I
0
6Czech (cs)
PL/I
0
7Danish (da)
PL/I
0
8German (de)
PL/I
0
9Spanish (es)
PL/1
0
10Estonian (et)
PL/I
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
338
2Polish (pl)
PL/I
251
3Chinese (zh)
PL/I
220
4Ukrainian (uk)
PL/I
199
5French (fr)
PL/I
175
6Japanese (ja)
PL/I
166
7Norwegian (no)
PL/I
157
8Czech (cs)
PL/I
130
9Dutch (nl)
PL/1
101
10Italian (it)
PL/I
99
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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:
#70126
07.2008 		Global:
#65770
07.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#942
02.2005 		Global:
#1501
11.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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

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
he: PL/I
cs: PL/I
fa: پی‌ال/۱
bg: PL/I
fi: PL/I
hu: PL/I
sv: PL/1
sk: PL/I
da: PL/I
ms: Bahasa pengaturcaraan PL/I
ca: PL/I
gl: PL/1
no: PL/I
et: PL/I
uk: PL/I
hr: PL/1
sh: PL/I
be: ПЛ/1

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