Thompson's construction

Thompson's construction algorithm - Algorithm relating regular expressions to NFAs. Article “Thompson's construction” in English Wikipedia has 43.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 8 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 “Thompson's construction”, its content was written by 30 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 97 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 66 times in English Wikipedia and cited 143 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #86869 in October 2015
• Global: #138730 in June 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #265692 in February 2021
• Global: #393450 in November 2020

There are 11 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) Thompson's construction		43.8641
2	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		28.4272
3	Chinese (zh) 汤普森构造法		28.4199
4	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		24.9598
5	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		24.7285
6	German (de) Thompson-Konstruktion		22.9192
7	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		21.6644
8	Arabic (ar) تجربة بناء طومسون		20.3646
9	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		8.0008
10	Ukrainian (uk) Синтез скінченних автоматів		7.8542

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Thompson's construction" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thompson's construction		361 525
2	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de Thompson		46 249
3	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		22 596
4	Chinese (zh) 汤普森构造法		12 085
5	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		10 748
6	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		7 761
7	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		3 303
8	Ukrainian (uk) Синтез скінченних автоматів		3 186
9	Arabic (ar) تجربة بناء طومسون		2 223
10	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		1 710

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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 "Thompson's construction" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thompson's construction		2 367
2	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		135
3	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de Thompson		125
4	Chinese (zh) 汤普森构造法		105
5	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		50
6	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		34
7	German (de) Thompson-Konstruktion		31
8	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		28
9	Ukrainian (uk) Синтез скінченних автоматів		21
10	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		9

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

Language versions of the article "Thompson's construction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thompson's construction		30
2	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		15
3	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		13
4	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		13
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de Thompson		10
6	Arabic (ar) تجربة بناء طومسون		3
7	German (de) Thompson-Konstruktion		3
8	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		3
9	Chinese (zh) 汤普森构造法		3
10	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		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 "Thompson's construction" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Thompson-Konstruktion		4
2	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		1
3	Arabic (ar) تجربة بناء طومسون		0
4	English (en) Thompson's construction		0
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de Thompson		0
6	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		0
7	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		0
9	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Синтез скінченних автоматів		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 "Thompson's construction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thompson's construction		66
2	French (fr) Algorithme de Thompson		40
3	Chinese (zh) 汤普森构造法		20
4	Ukrainian (uk) Синтез скінченних автоматів		5
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de Thompson		4
6	German (de) Thompson-Konstruktion		2
7	Persian (fa) الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون		2
8	Romanian (ro) Algoritmul lui Thompson		2
9	Italian (it) Algoritmo di Thompson		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de Thompson		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تجربة بناء طومسون
de	German Thompson-Konstruktion
en	English Thompson's construction
es	Spanish Algoritmo de Thompson
fa	Persian الگوریتم ساختمان تامپسون
fr	French Algorithme de Thompson
it	Italian Algoritmo di Thompson
pt	Portuguese Algoritmo de Thompson
ro	Romanian Algoritmul lui Thompson
uk	Ukrainian Синтез скінченних автоматів
zh	Chinese 汤普森构造法

Best Rank

English: #265692 02.2021

Global: #393450 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #86869 10.2015

Global: #138730 06.2018

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