Fortran

Quality:

Fortran - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 22^nd most popular programming language in French Wikipedia. Article “Fortran” in French Wikipedia has 77.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 139 references and 34 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

The 22^nd most popular in programming languages in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9960^th most popular in AI.

The 19^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “Fortran” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fortran”, its content was written by 163 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 2529 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9960^th place).

Fortran is on the 22^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in French Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 499 times in French Wikipedia and cited 9714 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #95 in March 2002
• Global: #253 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #8386 in December 2013
• Global: #5712 in January 2008

There are 51 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) Fortran		82.4821
2	French (fr) Fortran		77.8603
3	Ukrainian (uk) Фортран		76.8885
4	Chinese (zh) Fortran		74.2822
5	Russian (ru) Фортран		57.1391
6	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		56.4038
7	German (de) Fortran		51.2409
8	Catalan (ca) Fortran		48.983
9	Armenian (hy) Ֆորտրան		41.8427
10	Japanese (ja) Fortran		39.1102

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fortran		10 045 523
2	Spanish (es) Fortran		1 471 302
3	Russian (ru) Фортран		1 327 689
4	Japanese (ja) Fortran		1 314 669
5	German (de) Fortran		1 141 245
6	French (fr) Fortran		783 094
7	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		552 003
8	Chinese (zh) Fortran		503 790
9	Italian (it) Fortran		427 313
10	Polish (pl) Fortran		426 914

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) Fortran		25 944
2	Russian (ru) Фортран		3 180
3	Japanese (ja) Fortran		2 783
4	German (de) Fortran		2 662
5	French (fr) Fortran		1 664
6	Spanish (es) Fortran		1 614
7	Chinese (zh) Fortran		1 380
8	Polish (pl) Fortran		763
9	Portuguese (pt) Fortran		653
10	Italian (it) Fortran		626

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fortran		673
2	German (de) Fortran		180
3	French (fr) Fortran		163
4	Russian (ru) Фортран		127
5	Japanese (ja) Fortran		118
6	Italian (it) Fortran		96
7	Spanish (es) Fortran		94
8	Dutch (nl) Fortran		80
9	Polish (pl) Fortran		79
10	Chinese (zh) Fortran		60

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	English (en) Fortran		5
2	Latin (la) FORTRAN		3
3	Catalan (ca) Fortran		1
4	German (de) Fortran		1
5	French (fr) Fortran		1
6	Polish (pl) Fortran		1
7	Chinese (zh) Fortran		1
8	Arabic (ar) فورتران		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Fortran		0
10	Belarusian (be) Fortran		0

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

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