Variable (computer science)

Assignable variable - storage location paired with a name, which contains a value. Article "Variable (computer science)" in English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 12 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Variable (computer science)" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Variable (computer science)", its content was written by 160 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 873 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 478 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3114 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16760 in April 2013
• Global: #15863 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42449 in September 2014
• Global: #24182 in February 2015

There are 39 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	Basque (eu) Aldagai (informatika)		56.0195
2	Croatian (hr) Varijabla (računarstvo)		35.6273
3	English (en) Variable (computer science)		29.1783
4	German (de) Variable (Programmierung)		28.2273
5	Malay (ms) Pemboleh ubah (pengaturcaraan)		26.9268
6	Hungarian (hu) Változó (számítástechnika)		23.7968
7	Norwegian (no) Variabel (programmering)		21.4576
8	Turkish (tr) Değişken (bilgisayar bilimi)		19.8356
9	Finnish (fi) Muuttuja (ohjelmointi)		18.6533
10	Chinese (zh) 变量 (程序设计)		18.5248

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Variable (computer science)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Variable (computer science)		2 197 868
2	Spanish (es) Variable (programación)		2 185 644
3	German (de) Variable (Programmierung)		548 936
4	Russian (ru) Переменная (программирование)		410 621
5	Japanese (ja) 変数 (プログラミング)		394 087
6	Portuguese (pt) Variável (programação)		320 165
7	French (fr) Variable (informatique)		281 563
8	Italian (it) Variabile (informatica)		270 270
9	Polish (pl) Zmienna (informatyka)		241 264
10	Indonesian (id) Peubah (ilmu komputer)		82 473

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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 "Variable (computer science)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Variable (computer science)		6 483
2	French (fr) Variable (informatique)		717
3	Spanish (es) Variable (programación)		657
4	Russian (ru) Переменная (программирование)		648
5	German (de) Variable (Programmierung)		458
6	Japanese (ja) 変数 (プログラミング)		452
7	Chinese (zh) 变量 (程序设计)		291
8	Portuguese (pt) Variável (programação)		203
9	Italian (it) Variabile (informatica)		197
10	Korean (ko) 변수 (컴퓨터 과학)		177

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Variable (computer science)		160
2	German (de) Variable (Programmierung)		120
3	Spanish (es) Variable (programación)		89
4	Italian (it) Variabile (informatica)		66
5	French (fr) Variable (informatique)		43
6	Russian (ru) Переменная (программирование)		42
7	Japanese (ja) 変数 (プログラミング)		31
8	Polish (pl) Zmienna (informatyka)		31
9	Hebrew (he) משתנה (תכנות)		27
10	Turkish (tr) Değişken (bilgisayar bilimi)		25

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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 "Variable (computer science)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Variable (computer science)		5
2	Korean (ko) 변수 (컴퓨터 과학)		2
3	Basque (eu) Aldagai (informatika)		1
4	Arabic (ar) متغير (علم الحاسوب)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Dəyişən (proqramlaşdırma)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Пераменная (інфарматыка)		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Променлива (програмиране)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Variable (programació)		0
9	Czech (cs) Proměnná (programování)		0
10	Danish (da) Variabel (datalogi)		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 "Variable (computer science)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Variable (computer science)		478
2	German (de) Variable (Programmierung)		297
3	French (fr) Variable (informatique)		246
4	Italian (it) Variabile (informatica)		228
5	Japanese (ja) 変数 (プログラミング)		194
6	Arabic (ar) متغير (علم الحاسوب)		161
7	Polish (pl) Zmienna (informatyka)		157
8	Russian (ru) Переменная (программирование)		157
9	Ukrainian (uk) Змінна (програмування)		129
10	Spanish (es) Variable (programación)		128

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic متغير (علم الحاسوب)
az	Azerbaijani Dəyişən (proqramlaşdırma)
be	Belarusian Пераменная (інфарматыка)
bg	Bulgarian Променлива (програмиране)
ca	Catalan Variable (programació)
cs	Czech Proměnná (programování)
da	Danish Variabel (datalogi)
de	German Variable (Programmierung)
el	Greek Μεταβλητή (επιστήμη των υπολογιστών)
en	English Variable (computer science)
eo	Esperanto Variablo (programlingva)
es	Spanish Variable (programación)
et	Estonian Muutuja (informaatika)
eu	Basque Aldagai (informatika)
fa	Persian متغیر (علوم رایانه)
fi	Finnish Muuttuja (ohjelmointi)
fr	French Variable (informatique)
he	Hebrew משתנה (תכנות)
hr	Croatian Varijabla (računarstvo)
hu	Hungarian Változó (számítástechnika)
id	Indonesian Peubah (ilmu komputer)
it	Italian Variabile (informatica)
ja	Japanese 変数 (プログラミング)
ko	Korean 변수 (컴퓨터 과학)
ms	Malay Pemboleh ubah (pengaturcaraan)
nl	Dutch Variabele (informatica)
no	Norwegian Variabel (programmering)
pl	Polish Zmienna (informatyka)
pt	Portuguese Variável (programação)
ru	Russian Переменная (программирование)
simple	Simple English Variable (computer science)
sk	Slovak Premenná (informatika)
sr	Serbian Промјенљива (програмирање)
th	Thai ตัวแปร (วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์)
tr	Turkish Değişken (bilgisayar bilimi)
uk	Ukrainian Змінна (програмування)
ur	Urdu متغیر (پروگرامنگ)
vi	Vietnamese Biến (khoa học máy tính)
zh	Chinese 变量 (程序设计)

Best Rank

English: #42449 09.2014

Global: #24182 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #16760 04.2013

Global: #15863 10.2003

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