Erlang

Erlang - programming language. This programming language is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 62^nd most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Erlang” in Japanese Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Erlang”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 1314 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Erlang is on the 62^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 153 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 3681 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #12893 in July 2022
• Global: #1050 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #23181 in March 2008
• Global: #24386 in February 2014

There are 32 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	Russian (ru) Erlang		89.2308
2	Ukrainian (uk) Erlang		86.6667
3	Portuguese (pt) Erlang (linguagem de programação)		84.5435
4	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		60.0172
5	Chinese (zh) Erlang		49.0772
6	Greek (el) Erlang		42.4483
7	Persian (fa) ارلنگ		35.132
8	German (de) Erlang (Programmiersprache)		32.6578
9	Estonian (et) Erlang		30.4522
10	Catalan (ca) Erlang		30.4485

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		4 638 250
2	Russian (ru) Erlang		1 098 339
3	German (de) Erlang (Programmiersprache)		536 202
4	Japanese (ja) Erlang		386 726
5	Spanish (es) Erlang		378 389
6	French (fr) Erlang (langage)		349 147
7	Chinese (zh) Erlang		265 912
8	Turkish (tr) Erlang (programlama dili)		227 156
9	Italian (it) Erlang (linguaggio di programmazione)		202 145
10	Polish (pl) Erlang (język programowania)		189 033

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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 "Erlang" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		11 241
2	Russian (ru) Erlang		1 652
3	German (de) Erlang (Programmiersprache)		1 161
4	Chinese (zh) Erlang		837
5	Japanese (ja) Erlang		796
6	Spanish (es) Erlang		714
7	French (fr) Erlang (langage)		681
8	Italian (it) Erlang (linguaggio di programmazione)		331
9	Portuguese (pt) Erlang (linguagem de programação)		301
10	Polish (pl) Erlang (język programowania)		239

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		406
2	German (de) Erlang (Programmiersprache)		137
3	Russian (ru) Erlang		119
4	French (fr) Erlang (langage)		74
5	Japanese (ja) Erlang		52
6	Polish (pl) Erlang (język programowania)		49
7	Dutch (nl) Erlang (programmeertaal)		46
8	Spanish (es) Erlang		45
9	Italian (it) Erlang (linguaggio di programmazione)		45
10	Ukrainian (uk) Erlang		38

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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 "Erlang" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		1
2	Persian (fa) ارلنگ		1
3	Galician (gl) Erlang		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Erlang (linguagem de programação)		1
5	Arabic (ar) إرلانج		0
6	Belarusian (be) Erlang		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Erlang		0
8	Catalan (ca) Erlang		0
9	Czech (cs) Erlang (programovací jazyk)		0
10	Danish (da) Erlang (programmeringssprog)		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 "Erlang" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Erlang (programming language)		514
2	Chinese (zh) Erlang		315
3	Russian (ru) Erlang		300
4	Ukrainian (uk) Erlang		279
5	French (fr) Erlang (langage)		201
6	Portuguese (pt) Erlang (linguagem de programação)		196
7	Polish (pl) Erlang (język programowania)		192
8	Norwegian (no) Erlang (programmeringsspråk)		183
9	Czech (cs) Erlang (programovací jazyk)		174
10	Japanese (ja) Erlang		153

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إرلانج
be	Belarusian Erlang
bg	Bulgarian Erlang
ca	Catalan Erlang
cs	Czech Erlang (programovací jazyk)
da	Danish Erlang (programmeringssprog)
de	German Erlang (Programmiersprache)
el	Greek Erlang
en	English Erlang (programming language)
es	Spanish Erlang
et	Estonian Erlang
fa	Persian ارلنگ
fi	Finnish Erlang (ohjelmointikieli)
fr	French Erlang (langage)
gl	Galician Erlang
he	Hebrew Erlang
hu	Hungarian Erlang (programozási nyelv)
it	Italian Erlang (linguaggio di programmazione)
ja	Japanese Erlang
ka	Georgian ერლანგი
ko	Korean 얼랭
nl	Dutch Erlang (programmeertaal)
no	Norwegian Erlang (programmeringsspråk)
pl	Polish Erlang (język programowania)
pt	Portuguese Erlang (linguagem de programação)
ru	Russian Erlang
sv	Swedish Erlang (programspråk)
th	Thai ภาษาเออร์แลง
tr	Turkish Erlang (programlama dili)
uk	Ukrainian Erlang
vi	Vietnamese Erlang
zh	Chinese Erlang

Best Rank

Japanese: #23181 03.2008

Global: #24386 02.2014

Best Rank

Japanese: #12893 07.2022

Global: #1050 08.2001

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