Technical debt

Technical debt - the implied cost of additional rework caused by picking a fast and easy solution now instead of a better and harder-to-implement but more suitable approach. Article “Technical debt” in English Wikipedia has 38 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2 points.

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 “Technical debt”, its content was written by 153 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in English Wikipedia and cited 127 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #47779 in February 2012
• Global: #43405 in October 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #49872 in April 2015
• Global: #55088 in June 2017

There are 18 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	English (en) Technical debt		38.003
2	German (de) Technische Schulden		29.7345
3	Hebrew (he) חוב טכני		29.1585
4	Finnish (fi) Tekninen velka		25.3018
5	Spanish (es) Deuda técnica		24.0067
6	Chinese (zh) 技术负债		22.5652
7	Korean (ko) 기술 부채		22.5627
8	Persian (fa) بدهی فنی		22.0639
9	Portuguese (pt) Dívida tecnológica		20.189
10	Ukrainian (uk) Технічний борг		17.2204

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Technical debt" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Technical debt		2 249 352
2	German (de) Technische Schulden		376 074
3	Russian (ru) Технический долг		167 730
4	French (fr) Dette technique		135 753
5	Japanese (ja) 技術的負債		93 503
6	Spanish (es) Deuda técnica		66 936
7	Chinese (zh) 技术负债		48 575
8	Italian (it) Debito tecnico		27 839
9	Korean (ko) 기술 부채		14 862
10	Norwegian (no) Teknisk gjeld		7 331

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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 "Technical debt" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Technical debt		8 791
2	Russian (ru) Технический долг		1 435
3	German (de) Technische Schulden		702
4	French (fr) Dette technique		678
5	Japanese (ja) 技術的負債		511
6	Chinese (zh) 技术负债		452
7	Spanish (es) Deuda técnica		232
8	Italian (it) Debito tecnico		130
9	Korean (ko) 기술 부채		87
10	Portuguese (pt) Dívida tecnológica		86

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

Language versions of the article "Technical debt" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Technical debt		153
2	German (de) Technische Schulden		68
3	French (fr) Dette technique		52
4	Japanese (ja) 技術的負債		16
5	Russian (ru) Технический долг		16
6	Hebrew (he) חוב טכני		14
7	Chinese (zh) 技术负债		13
8	Italian (it) Debito tecnico		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) Технічний борг		9
10	Arabic (ar) دين تقني		6

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

Language versions of the article "Technical debt" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Технический долг		1
2	Arabic (ar) دين تقني		0
3	Catalan (ca) Deute tècnic		0
4	German (de) Technische Schulden		0
5	English (en) Technical debt		0
6	Spanish (es) Deuda técnica		0
7	Persian (fa) بدهی فنی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Tekninen velka		0
9	French (fr) Dette technique		0
10	Hebrew (he) חוב טכני		0

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

Language versions of the article "Technical debt" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Technical debt		43
2	German (de) Technische Schulden		19
3	Chinese (zh) 技术负债		14
4	French (fr) Dette technique		8
5	Russian (ru) Технический долг		8
6	Japanese (ja) 技術的負債		7
7	Arabic (ar) دين تقني		5
8	Italian (it) Debito tecnico		5
9	Korean (ko) 기술 부채		5
10	Persian (fa) بدهی فنی		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دين تقني
ca	Catalan Deute tècnic
de	German Technische Schulden
en	English Technical debt
es	Spanish Deuda técnica
fa	Persian بدهی فنی
fi	Finnish Tekninen velka
fr	French Dette technique
he	Hebrew חוב טכני
hi	Hindi तकनीकी ऋण
it	Italian Debito tecnico
ja	Japanese 技術的負債
ko	Korean 기술 부채
no	Norwegian Teknisk gjeld
pt	Portuguese Dívida tecnológica
ru	Russian Технический долг
uk	Ukrainian Технічний борг
zh	Chinese 技术负债

Best Rank

English: #49872 04.2015

Global: #55088 06.2017

Best Rank

English: #47779 02.2012

Global: #43405 10.2019

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