Java

Quality:

Java - object-oriented programming language. This software is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 4^th most popular software in Japanese Wikipedia and the 1^st most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Java” in Japanese Wikipedia has 42.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 56 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.26 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

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The 4155^th most popular in Japanese Wikipedia.

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The 3138^th most editable in Japanese Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in software in Japanese Wikipedia.

The 1^st most popular in programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 951^st most popular in all topics.

The 515^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in software.

The 2^nd most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8453^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Java”, its content was written by 254 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (3138^th place) and edited by 8064 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (515^th place).

Java is on the 4^th place in local ranking of software in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Java is on the 1^st place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 2^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1936 times in Japanese Wikipedia (5010^th place) and cited 31996 times in all languages (5311^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #27 in February 2003
• Global: #38 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #731 in April 2008
• Global: #8 in December 2015

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) Java (programming language)		80.2059
2	Chinese (zh) Java		71.5557
3	Finnish (fi) Java		70.2837
4	Basque (eu) Java (programazio-lengoaia)		65.6739
5	French (fr) Java (langage)		65.5253
6	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		62.9099
7	Hindi (hi) जावा (प्रोग्रामिंग भाषा)		59.9059
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Java (thêng-sek gí-giân)		55.0171
9	Indonesian (id) Java		54.5348
10	Persian (fa) جاوا		54.3608

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Java (programming language)		53 964 036
2	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		7 439 864
3	Russian (ru) Java		6 547 187
4	Japanese (ja) Java		5 017 488
5	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		4 571 896
6	French (fr) Java (langage)		3 403 520
7	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		2 363 515
8	Chinese (zh) Java		2 035 678
9	Polish (pl) Java		1 640 267
10	Arabic (ar) جافا (لغة برمجة)		1 170 963

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) Java (programming language)		40 037
2	Russian (ru) Java		5 376
3	French (fr) Java (langage)		4 175
4	Japanese (ja) Java		3 692
5	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		3 446
6	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		3 054
7	Chinese (zh) Java		2 686
8	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		1 498
9	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		1 012
10	Polish (pl) Java		956

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Java (programming language)		2 052
2	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		640
3	French (fr) Java (langage)		527
4	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		409
5	Russian (ru) Java		394
6	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		299
7	Chinese (zh) Java		292
8	Japanese (ja) Java		254
9	Dutch (nl) Java (programmeertaal)		210
10	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		209

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) Java (Programmiersprache)		3
2	English (en) Java (programming language)		3
3	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		2
4	Basque (eu) Java (programazio-lengoaia)		2
5	Finnish (fi) Java		2
6	Arabic (ar) جافا (لغة برمجة)		1
7	Catalan (ca) Java (llenguatge de programació)		1
8	Persian (fa) جاوا		1
9	Indonesian (id) Java		1
10	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information