Virtual inheritance

Virtual inheritance - in object-oriented programming, inheritance in which the superclass object is accessed through an additional layer of indirection, such that in diamond-shaped multiple inheritance, the common superclass appears only once. Article "Virtual inheritance" in English Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Virtual inheritance", its content was written by 80 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in English Wikipedia and cited 92 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24595 in July 2006
• Global: #72712 in July 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #123704 in February 2008
• Global: #189754 in February 2008

There are 9 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	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		24.3982
2	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		17.1494
3	English (en) Virtual inheritance		16.637
4	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		13.8137
5	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		10.1865
6	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		9.3312
7	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		8.8687
8	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		3.6893
9	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		3.3473

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Virtual inheritance" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual inheritance		996 573
2	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		167 088
3	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		51 720
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		45 056
5	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		24 259
6	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		2 820
7	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		718
8	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		156
9	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		65

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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 "Virtual inheritance" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual inheritance		1 963
2	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		145
3	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		131
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		77
5	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		25
6	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		23
7	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		17
8	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		13
9	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virtual inheritance		80
2	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		22
3	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		8
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		7
5	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		4
6	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		4
7	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		3
8	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		1
9	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		1

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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 "Virtual inheritance" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		0
2	English (en) Virtual inheritance		0
3	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		0
4	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		0
5	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		0
6	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		0
7	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		0
9	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		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 "Virtual inheritance" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Virtual inheritance		27
2	Russian (ru) Виртуальное наследование		21
3	Chinese (zh) 虚继承		14
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想継承		13
5	Korean (ko) 가상 상속		6
6	Hungarian (hu) Virtuális öröklődés		5
7	Spanish (es) Herencia virtual		4
8	Catalan (ca) Herència virtual		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Віртуальне успадкування		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Herència virtual
en	English Virtual inheritance
es	Spanish Herencia virtual
hu	Hungarian Virtuális öröklődés
ja	Japanese 仮想継承
ko	Korean 가상 상속
ru	Russian Виртуальное наследование
uk	Ukrainian Віртуальне успадкування
zh	Chinese 虚继承

Best Rank

English: #123704 02.2008

Global: #189754 02.2008

Best Rank

English: #24595 07.2006

Global: #72712 07.2006

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