Turing machine

Quality:

Turing machine - abstract computation model; mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Article “Turing machine” in English Wikipedia has 76.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 75 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.03 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9673^rd most popular in all topics.

The 9986^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Turing machine” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Turing machine”, its content was written by 605 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2569 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9986^th place).

The article is cited 1057 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #114 in November 2002
• Global: #163 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #258 in June 2012
• Global: #297 in June 2012

There are 47 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, 2026 (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) Turing machine		76.5026
2	Catalan (ca) Màquina de Turing		56.6368
3	Spanish (es) Máquina de Turing		52.6107
4	German (de) Turingmaschine		48.9005
5	Italian (it) Macchina di Turing		41.7363
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Turingmaskin		40.6913
7	Persian (fa) ماشین تورینگ		40.2971
8	Greek (el) Μηχανή Τούρινγκ		38.9888
9	Hungarian (hu) Turing-gép		38.8028
10	Serbian (sr) Тјурингова машина		38.4386

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Turing machine		12 038 678
2	Spanish (es) Máquina de Turing		2 794 240
3	Russian (ru) Машина Тьюринга		2 258 044
4	German (de) Turingmaschine		1 962 504
5	Italian (it) Macchina di Turing		1 504 258
6	French (fr) Machine de Turing		1 467 547
7	Japanese (ja) チューリングマシン		1 309 117
8	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Turing		1 024 120
9	Chinese (zh) 图灵机		896 164
10	Polish (pl) Maszyna Turinga		838 664

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Turing machine		29 631
2	German (de) Turingmaschine		3 948
3	Russian (ru) Машина Тьюринга		3 645
4	Japanese (ja) チューリングマシン		3 393
5	Italian (it) Macchina di Turing		3 032
6	French (fr) Machine de Turing		2 990
7	Spanish (es) Máquina de Turing		2 641
8	Chinese (zh) 图灵机		2 063
9	Polish (pl) Maszyna Turinga		1 509
10	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Turing		1 229

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Turing machine		605
2	German (de) Turingmaschine		272
3	French (fr) Machine de Turing		196
4	Italian (it) Macchina di Turing		145
5	Spanish (es) Máquina de Turing		125
6	Russian (ru) Машина Тьюринга		121
7	Polish (pl) Maszyna Turinga		81
8	Portuguese (pt) Máquina de Turing		73
9	Hebrew (he) מכונת טיורינג		71
10	Chinese (zh) 图灵机		70

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Turing machine		8
2	German (de) Turingmaschine		3
3	Italian (it) Macchina di Turing		2
4	Arabic (ar) آلة تورنغ		1
5	Basque (eu) Turingen makina		1
6	French (fr) Machine de Turing		1
7	Polish (pl) Maszyna Turinga		1
8	Serbian (sr) Тјурингова машина		1
9	Chinese (zh) 图灵机		1
10	Belarusian (be) Машына Цьюрынга		0

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

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