Metal (API)

Metal - graphics rendering API by Apple. Article “Metal (API)” in French Wikipedia has 5.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.28 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Metal (API)”, its content was written by 12 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 214 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #5868 in July 2018
• Global: #17986 in December 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #257252 in November 2019
• Global: #57226 in June 2018

There are 13 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	English (en) Metal (API)		44.4114
2	Chinese (zh) Metal (API)		27.8985
3	Spanish (es) Metal (API)		26.9813
4	Portuguese (pt) Metal (API)		25.3686
5	Finnish (fi) Metal (ohjelmointi)		24.4903
6	German (de) Metal (API)		24.4325
7	Turkish (tr) Metal API		23.6844
8	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		17.1582
9	Korean (ko) 메탈 (API)		16.1472
10	Czech (cs) Metal (iOS API)		13.348

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Metal (API)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metal (API)		1 110 453
2	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		112 945
3	Chinese (zh) Metal (API)		64 116
4	Italian (it) Metal (API)		16 653
5	French (fr) Metal (API)		16 022
6	Korean (ko) 메탈 (API)		14 956
7	German (de) Metal (API)		14 426
8	Portuguese (pt) Metal (API)		5 275
9	Spanish (es) Metal (API)		4 462
10	Turkish (tr) Metal API		3 937

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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 "Metal (API)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metal (API)		4 474
2	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		314
3	Chinese (zh) Metal (API)		252
4	German (de) Metal (API)		129
5	French (fr) Metal (API)		85
6	Italian (it) Metal (API)		62
7	Spanish (es) Metal (API)		55
8	Portuguese (pt) Metal (API)		41
9	Turkish (tr) Metal API		19
10	Czech (cs) Metal (iOS API)		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metal (API)		116
2	Italian (it) Metal (API)		15
3	Chinese (zh) Metal (API)		15
4	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		13
5	French (fr) Metal (API)		12
6	Czech (cs) Metal (iOS API)		9
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal (API)		8
8	Turkish (tr) Metal API		7
9	German (de) Metal (API)		6
10	Finnish (fi) Metal (ohjelmointi)		5

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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 "Metal (API)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ميتال (واجهة برمجة التطبيقات)		0
2	Czech (cs) Metal (iOS API)		0
3	German (de) Metal (API)		0
4	English (en) Metal (API)		0
5	Spanish (es) Metal (API)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Metal (ohjelmointi)		0
7	French (fr) Metal (API)		0
8	Italian (it) Metal (API)		0
9	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		0
10	Korean (ko) 메탈 (API)		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 "Metal (API)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Metal (API)		410
2	Japanese (ja) Metal (API)		404
3	Chinese (zh) Metal (API)		298
4	Italian (it) Metal (API)		293
5	Turkish (tr) Metal API		256
6	Arabic (ar) ميتال (واجهة برمجة التطبيقات)		182
7	Korean (ko) 메탈 (API)		117
8	German (de) Metal (API)		19
9	French (fr) Metal (API)		17
10	Portuguese (pt) Metal (API)		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ميتال (واجهة برمجة التطبيقات)
cs	Czech Metal (iOS API)
de	German Metal (API)
en	English Metal (API)
es	Spanish Metal (API)
fi	Finnish Metal (ohjelmointi)
fr	French Metal (API)
it	Italian Metal (API)
ja	Japanese Metal (API)
ko	Korean 메탈 (API)
pt	Portuguese Metal (API)
tr	Turkish Metal API
zh	Chinese Metal (API)

Best Rank

French: #257252 11.2019

Global: #57226 06.2018

Best Rank

French: #5868 07.2018

Global: #17986 12.2017

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