The Lifecycle of Software Objects

The Lifecycle of Software Objects - 2010 novella by Ted Chiang. Article “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 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 “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, its content was written by 36 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 54 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 155 times in English Wikipedia and cited 258 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #128547 in May 2022
• Global: #215699 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #218760 in November 2016
• Global: #378925 in November 2016

There are 5 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) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		30.6746
2	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		28.2303
3	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		26.3292
4	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		20.0519
5	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		17.2212

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		246 166
2	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		10 779
3	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		6 532
4	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		794
5	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		399

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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 "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		2 218
2	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		141
3	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		125
4	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		78
5	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		29

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

Language versions of the article "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		36
2	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		6
3	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		6
4	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		4
5	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		2

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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 "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		0
2	English (en) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		0
3	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		0
4	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		0
5	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		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 "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Lifecycle of Software Objects		155
2	French (fr) Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels		55
3	German (de) Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten		26
4	Italian (it) Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software		16
5	Spanish (es) El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German Der Lebenszyklus von Software-Objekten
en	English The Lifecycle of Software Objects
es	Spanish El ciclo de vida de los objetos de software
fr	French Le Cycle de vie des objets logiciels
it	Italian Il ciclo di vita degli oggetti software

Best Rank

English: #218760 11.2016

Global: #378925 11.2016

Best Rank

English: #128547 05.2022

Global: #215699 10.2017

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