Rule of three (computer programming)

Rule of three - computer programming refactoring rule of thumb. Article “Rule of three (computer programming)” in English Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Rule of three (computer programming)”, its content was written by 38 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 67 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in English Wikipedia and cited 75 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49924 in December 2018
• Global: #176047 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #142159 in August 2023
• Global: #246750 in August 2023

There are 7 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	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		20.3967
2	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		18.1031
3	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		14.1651
4	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		12.4114
5	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		11.3318
6	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		9.6989
7	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		7.9103

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Rule of three (computer programming)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		399 739
2	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		8 581
3	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		2 466
4	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		1 862
5	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		1 676
6	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		1 006
7	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		512

More...

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 "Rule of three (computer programming)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		2 215
2	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		52
3	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		36
4	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		15
5	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		14
6	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		12
7	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		10

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		38
2	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		7
3	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		6
4	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		5
5	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		5
6	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		4
7	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		2

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Rule of three (computer programming)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		0
2	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		0
3	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		0
4	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		0
5	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		0
6	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		0
7	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Rule of three (computer programming)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Règle de trois (programmation informatique)		58
2	English (en) Rule of three (computer programming)		5
3	Ukrainian (uk) Правило трьох (інформатика)		5
4	Italian (it) Regola del tre (programmazione)		3
5	Chinese (zh) 三次法则 (程序设计)		3
6	Hungarian (hu) Hármas szabály (programozás)		1
7	Spanish (es) Regla de tres (programación informática)		0

More...

#	Language	Value
en	English Rule of three (computer programming)
es	Spanish Regla de tres (programación informática)
fr	French Règle de trois (programmation informatique)
hu	Hungarian Hármas szabály (programozás)
it	Italian Regola del tre (programmazione)
uk	Ukrainian Правило трьох (інформатика)
zh	Chinese 三次法则 (程序设计)

Best Rank

English: #142159 08.2023

Global: #246750 08.2023

Best Rank

English: #49924 12.2018

Global: #176047 12.2018

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jessie Buckley, Sinners (2025 film), Amy Madigan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Maya Rudolph, Sean Penn, Academy Awards.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information