GLSL

OpenGL Shading Language - shading language. This programming language is the 105^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 97^th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “GLSL” in Japanese Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “GLSL”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

OpenGL Shading Language is on the 97^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 105^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 82 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 653 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #13085 in August 2020
• Global: #39523 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #87591 in February 2013
• Global: #92362 in March 2013

There are 17 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) OpenGL Shading Language		44.9369
2	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge d'ombrejat d'OpenGL (GLSL)		43.1152
3	Korean (ko) GLSL		31.8412
4	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		31.315
5	Czech (cs) OpenGL Shading Language		30.1666
6	Ukrainian (uk) GLSL		27.9844
7	Chinese (zh) GLSL		27.0245
8	Russian (ru) OpenGL Shading Language		26.8809
9	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		18.4354
10	Japanese (ja) GLSL		18.2907

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) OpenGL Shading Language		1 743 940
2	Russian (ru) OpenGL Shading Language		197 509
3	Japanese (ja) GLSL		190 990
4	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		159 608
5	Chinese (zh) GLSL		109 300
6	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		60 161
7	Polish (pl) OpenGL Shading Language		56 077
8	Spanish (es) GLSL		54 267
9	Korean (ko) GLSL		34 469
10	Italian (it) GLSL		26 335

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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 "GLSL" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) OpenGL Shading Language		4 680
2	Russian (ru) OpenGL Shading Language		363
3	Japanese (ja) GLSL		351
4	Chinese (zh) GLSL		276
5	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		206
6	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		156
7	Spanish (es) GLSL		88
8	Italian (it) GLSL		74
9	Portuguese (pt) GLSL		56
10	Polish (pl) OpenGL Shading Language		54

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) OpenGL Shading Language		113
2	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		53
3	Russian (ru) OpenGL Shading Language		33
4	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		32
5	Polish (pl) OpenGL Shading Language		28
6	Japanese (ja) GLSL		25
7	Italian (it) GLSL		18
8	Turkish (tr) GLSL		17
9	Chinese (zh) GLSL		12
10	Czech (cs) OpenGL Shading Language		10

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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 "GLSL" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge d'ombrejat d'OpenGL (GLSL)		1
2	Arabic (ar) جي إل إس إل		0
3	Czech (cs) OpenGL Shading Language		0
4	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		0
5	English (en) OpenGL Shading Language		0
6	Spanish (es) GLSL		0
7	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		0
8	Italian (it) GLSL		0
9	Japanese (ja) GLSL		0
10	Korean (ko) GLSL		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 "GLSL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) GLSL		216
2	English (en) OpenGL Shading Language		108
3	Japanese (ja) GLSL		82
4	Russian (ru) OpenGL Shading Language		43
5	Spanish (es) GLSL		28
6	French (fr) OpenGL Shading Language		27
7	Ukrainian (uk) GLSL		26
8	German (de) OpenGL Shading Language		24
9	Portuguese (pt) GLSL		21
10	Czech (cs) OpenGL Shading Language		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جي إل إس إل
ca	Catalan Llenguatge d'ombrejat d'OpenGL (GLSL)
cs	Czech OpenGL Shading Language
de	German OpenGL Shading Language
en	English OpenGL Shading Language
es	Spanish GLSL
fr	French OpenGL Shading Language
it	Italian GLSL
ja	Japanese GLSL
ko	Korean GLSL
pl	Polish OpenGL Shading Language
pt	Portuguese GLSL
ru	Russian OpenGL Shading Language
sv	Swedish OpenGL Shading Language
tr	Turkish GLSL
uk	Ukrainian GLSL
zh	Chinese GLSL

Best Rank

Japanese: #87591 02.2013

Global: #92362 03.2013

Best Rank

Japanese: #13085 08.2020

Global: #39523 09.2008

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