Perl

Quality:

This programming language is the 21^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 19^th most popular programming language in Hebrew Wikipedia. Article “Perl” in Hebrew Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Hebrew Wikipedia:

The 19^th most popular in programming languages in Hebrew Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4552^nd most popular in AI.

The 21^st most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “Perl” was edited by 1 authors in Hebrew Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Perl”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Hebrew Wikipedia and edited by 3761 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4552^nd place).

Perl is on the 19^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Hebrew Wikipedia and on the 21^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 140 times in Hebrew Wikipedia and cited 13133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hebrew): #577 in January 2005
• Global: #31 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hebrew): #778 in November 2025
• Global: #4129 in November 2025

There are 54 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) Perl		84.281
2	Korean (ko) 펄		80.98
3	Chinese (zh) Perl		71.9908
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		59.3496
5	Russian (ru) Perl		50.6353
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Perl		49.5108
7	Tamil (ta) பெர்ள்		46.9002
8	Spanish (es) Perl		45.1237
9	Hungarian (hu) Perl (programozási nyelv)		44.7038
10	Persian (fa) پرل		43.2927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perl		9 794 014
2	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 660 541
3	Russian (ru) Perl		1 508 234
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 316 430
5	Spanish (es) Perl		1 235 207
6	French (fr) Perl (langage)		716 548
7	Chinese (zh) Perl		621 845
8	Polish (pl) Perl		567 765
9	Portuguese (pt) Perl		373 660
10	Italian (it) Perl		305 206

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) Perl		13 423
2	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 594
3	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 364
4	Russian (ru) Perl		1 158
5	French (fr) Perl (langage)		780
6	Chinese (zh) Perl		752
7	Spanish (es) Perl		449
8	Italian (it) Perl		301
9	Polish (pl) Perl		290
10	Portuguese (pt) Perl		210

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perl		1 155
2	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		401
3	French (fr) Perl (langage)		231
4	Russian (ru) Perl		204
5	Italian (it) Perl		118
6	Spanish (es) Perl		112
7	Japanese (ja) Perl		108
8	Chinese (zh) Perl		100
9	Dutch (nl) Perl (programmeertaal)		96
10	Polish (pl) Perl		77

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) Perl		3
2	Arabic (ar) بيرل		2
3	Korean (ko) 펄		2
4	Czech (cs) Perl		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Perl		1
6	Spanish (es) Perl		1
7	French (fr) Perl (langage)		1
8	Hebrew (he) Perl		1
9	Japanese (ja) Perl		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Perl		0

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

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