YAML

YAML - human-readable data serialization format. This programming language is the 37^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 27^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “YAML” in English Wikipedia has 58.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 60 references and 22 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “YAML” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “YAML”, its content was written by 377 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 914 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

YAML is on the 27^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 37^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 156 times in English Wikipedia and cited 759 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6529 in September 2016
• Global: #6992 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14025 in June 2018
• Global: #19818 in July 2019

There are 25 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) YAML		60.8637
2	English (en) YAML		58.5952
3	Turkish (tr) YAML		53.1007
4	German (de) YAML		36.3933
5	Hebrew (he) YAML		31.7166
6	Catalan (ca) YAML		28.8698
7	Italian (it) YAML		27.8189
8	Russian (ru) YAML		27.3084
9	Polish (pl) YAML		26.2391
10	Indonesian (id) YAML		25.5332

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) YAML		6 971 103
2	German (de) YAML		855 358
3	Russian (ru) YAML		810 164
4	Japanese (ja) YAML		539 148
5	French (fr) YAML		475 552
6	Chinese (zh) YAML		434 516
7	Spanish (es) YAML		322 263
8	Polish (pl) YAML		200 850
9	Italian (it) YAML		121 836
10	Korean (ko) YAML		115 633

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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 "YAML" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) YAML		26 380
2	German (de) YAML		2 929
3	Russian (ru) YAML		2 610
4	Japanese (ja) YAML		1 927
5	French (fr) YAML		1 659
6	Chinese (zh) YAML		1 500
7	Spanish (es) YAML		950
8	Polish (pl) YAML		604
9	Simple English (simple) YAML		457
10	Italian (it) YAML		322

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) YAML		377
2	German (de) YAML		91
3	French (fr) YAML		83
4	Russian (ru) YAML		66
5	Chinese (zh) YAML		44
6	Japanese (ja) YAML		40
7	Spanish (es) YAML		35
8	Italian (it) YAML		26
9	Polish (pl) YAML		26
10	Czech (cs) YAML		22

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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 "YAML" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) YAML		3
2	Czech (cs) YAML		1
3	Simple English (simple) YAML		1
4	Catalan (ca) YAML		0
5	German (de) YAML		0
6	Spanish (es) YAML		0
7	Persian (fa) YAML		0
8	Finnish (fi) YAML		0
9	French (fr) YAML		0
10	Galician (gl) YAML		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 "YAML" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) YAML		156
2	Japanese (ja) YAML		77
3	Russian (ru) YAML		65
4	Chinese (zh) YAML		63
5	Korean (ko) YAML		58
6	French (fr) YAML		56
7	Ukrainian (uk) YAML		41
8	German (de) YAML		39
9	Spanish (es) YAML		31
10	Polish (pl) YAML		30

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan YAML
cs	Czech YAML
de	German YAML
en	English YAML
es	Spanish YAML
fa	Persian YAML
fi	Finnish YAML
fr	French YAML
gl	Galician YAML
he	Hebrew YAML
id	Indonesian YAML
it	Italian YAML
ja	Japanese YAML
ko	Korean YAML
nl	Dutch YAML
no	Norwegian YAML
pl	Polish YAML
pt	Portuguese YAML
ru	Russian YAML
simple	Simple English YAML
sk	Slovak YAML
sv	Swedish YAML
tr	Turkish YAML
uk	Ukrainian YAML
zh	Chinese YAML

Best Rank

English: #14025 06.2018

Global: #19818 07.2019

Best Rank

English: #6529 09.2016

Global: #6992 07.2020

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