Visual Basic (classic)

Quality:

Visual Basic - legacy programming language by Microsoft. This programming language is the 18^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 187^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Visual Basic (classic)" in English Wikipedia has 68.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9077^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 187^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6445^th most popular in AI.

The 18^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "Visual Basic (classic)", its content was written by 864 registered users of English Wikipedia (9077^th place) and edited by 3142 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6445^th place).

Visual Basic is on the 187^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 18^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 860 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5861 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #247 in April 2003
• Global: #256 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42168 in March 2025
• Global: #4867 in February 2008

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, 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) Visual Basic (classic)		68.4381
2	Hungarian (hu) Visual Basic		58.2815
3	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		44.7256
4	Hindi (hi) विज़ुअल बेसिक		44.6062
5	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		41.6149
6	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		36.1386
7	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		35.2227
8	Simple English (simple) Visual Basic		35.201
9	Tamil (ta) விசுவல் பேசிக்		34.3369
10	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		30.0372

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		6 783 024
2	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1 935 856
3	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		1 395 466
4	French (fr) Visual Basic		1 273 936
5	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		1 025 626
6	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		966 214
7	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		787 566
8	Portuguese (pt) Visual Basic		782 647
9	Italian (it) Visual Basic		750 407
10	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		665 828

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) Visual Basic (classic)		8 924
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		3 336
3	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1 699
4	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		1 110
5	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		1 039
6	French (fr) Visual Basic		911
7	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		640
8	Simple English (simple) Visual Basic		509
9	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		388
10	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		383

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		864
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		280
3	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		178
4	French (fr) Visual Basic		153
5	Italian (it) Visual Basic		153
6	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		120
7	Dutch (nl) Visual Basic		99
8	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		96
9	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		92
10	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		86

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	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Visual Basic		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Visual Basic		0
4	Catalan (ca) Visual Basic		0
5	Czech (cs) Visual Basic		0
6	Danish (da) Visual Basic		0
7	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		0
8	Greek (el) Visual Basic		0
9	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Visual Basic		0

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

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