Awk

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AWK - data-driven programming language made by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. This programming language is the 59^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 34^th most popular programming language in Hungarian Wikipedia. Article “Awk” in Hungarian Wikipedia has 33.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Hungarian Wikipedia:

The 34^th most popular in programming languages in Hungarian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 59^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Hungarian Wikipedia:

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The 4995^th most editable in Hungarian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Awk” was edited by 1 authors in Hungarian Wikipedia (4995^th place) and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Awk”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Hungarian Wikipedia and edited by 1255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

AWK is on the 34^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Hungarian Wikipedia and on the 59^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 175 times in Hungarian Wikipedia and cited 4380 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hungarian): #308 in May 2014
• Global: #217 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hungarian): #8895 in April 2009
• Global: #25495 in November 2014

There are 39 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) AWK		55.712
2	Estonian (et) AWK		47.1095
3	Chinese (zh) AWK		38.0376
4	Greek (el) AWK		35.5343
5	Hungarian (hu) Awk		33.7161
6	Finnish (fi) AWK		33.172
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Awk		31.223
8	Hebrew (he) AWK		30.8272
9	Romanian (ro) AWK		29.8024
10	Polish (pl) AWK		27.9156

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		3 475 390
2	German (de) Awk		645 250
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		525 963
4	Russian (ru) AWK		409 749
5	Spanish (es) AWK		319 228
6	French (fr) Awk		304 356
7	Polish (pl) AWK		279 319
8	Chinese (zh) AWK		145 196
9	Italian (it) Awk		94 414
10	Portuguese (pt) AWK		85 182

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) AWK		7 503
2	German (de) Awk		803
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		677
4	Chinese (zh) AWK		445
5	Russian (ru) AWK		416
6	French (fr) Awk		393
7	Spanish (es) AWK		327
8	Polish (pl) AWK		179
9	Italian (it) Awk		158
10	Czech (cs) AWK		121

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK		284
2	German (de) Awk		131
3	French (fr) Awk		84
4	Japanese (ja) AWK		72
5	Italian (it) Awk		67
6	Dutch (nl) AWK		55
7	Russian (ru) AWK		52
8	Spanish (es) AWK		42
9	Hungarian (hu) Awk		42
10	Polish (pl) AWK		39

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) Awk		1
2	Galician (gl) AWK		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Awk		1
4	Arabic (ar) أوك (لغة برمجة)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) AWK		0
6	Catalan (ca) Awk		0
7	Czech (cs) AWK		0
8	Danish (da) AWK (programmeringssprog)		0
9	Greek (el) AWK		0
10	English (en) AWK		0

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

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