XML

Quality:

XML - markup language by the W3C for encoding of data. This programming language is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 10^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “XML” in English Wikipedia has 60.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 59 references and 38 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3978^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6031^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 10^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3486^th most popular in all topics.

The 3830^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “XML” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “XML”, its content was written by 1056 registered users of English Wikipedia (6031^st place) and edited by 4064 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3830^th place).

XML is on the 10^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 2806 times in English Wikipedia and cited 18349 times in all languages (9463^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #221 in July 2002
• Global: #77 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #808 in April 2008
• Global: #545 in July 2008

There are 50 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	Tamil (ta) எக்ஸ்எம்எல்		81.25
2	English (en) XML		60.3738
3	Malay (ms) XML		51.9804
4	Japanese (ja) XML		47.3489
5	Chinese (zh) XML		45.3156
6	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		44.4153
7	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		44.3377
8	Persian (fa) اکس‌ام‌ال		36.5488
9	Slovenian (sl) XML		36.3607
10	Croatian (hr) XML		35.9126

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) XML		24 075 432
2	Russian (ru) XML		4 117 390
3	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		4 024 252
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		3 515 060
5	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		2 370 247
6	Italian (it) XML		1 702 047
7	Japanese (ja) XML		1 595 381
8	Portuguese (pt) XML		1 491 788
9	Polish (pl) XML		1 476 240
10	Chinese (zh) XML		1 177 384

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) XML		20 104
2	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		3 277
3	Simple English (simple) XML		2 427
4	Russian (ru) XML		2 068
5	Japanese (ja) XML		1 989
6	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		1 702
7	Chinese (zh) XML		1 260
8	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		933
9	Italian (it) XML		855
10	Portuguese (pt) XML		753

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) XML		1 056
2	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		399
3	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		317
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		184
5	Russian (ru) XML		181
6	Italian (it) XML		178
7	Polish (pl) XML		128
8	Japanese (ja) XML		122
9	Chinese (zh) XML		111
10	Dutch (nl) Extensible Markup Language		108

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	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		2
2	English (en) XML		2
3	Arabic (ar) لغة التأشير الوسوعة		1
4	Hungarian (hu) XML		1
5	Russian (ru) XML		1
6	Tamil (ta) எக்ஸ்எம்எல்		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) XML		0
8	Belarusian (be) XML		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) XML		0
10	Catalan (ca) Extensible Markup Language		0

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

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