Visual Basic

Quality:

Visual Basic - legacy programming language by Microsoft. This programming language is the 20^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 11^th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Visual Basic” in Japanese Wikipedia has 29 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.53 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:

The 11^th most popular in programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6641^st most popular in AI.

The 20^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Visual Basic”, its content was written by 89 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 3137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6641^st place).

Visual Basic is on the 11^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 485 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 6111 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #458 in March 2004
• Global: #296 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #5425 in April 2015
• Global: #4886 in February 2008

There are 47 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) Visual Basic (classic)		68.3292
2	Hungarian (hu) Visual Basic		59.641
3	Hindi (hi) विज़ुअल बेसिक		44.5326
4	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		44.2818
5	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		41.6633
6	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		36.0986
7	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		34.975
8	Tamil (ta) விசுவல் பேசிக்		34.1667
9	Simple English (simple) Visual Basic		33.4902
10	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		32.4598

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		6 809 364
2	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1 955 462
3	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		1 411 059
4	French (fr) Visual Basic		1 286 486
5	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		1 031 368
6	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		974 182
7	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		801 708
8	Portuguese (pt) Visual Basic		787 130
9	Italian (it) Visual Basic		756 301
10	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		754 380

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) Visual Basic (classic)		6 109
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		1 349
3	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1 087
4	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		972
5	French (fr) Visual Basic		894
6	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		783
7	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		555
8	Italian (it) Visual Basic		341
9	Polish (pl) Visual Basic		295
10	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		238

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		870
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		281
3	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		179
4	Italian (it) Visual Basic		155
5	French (fr) Visual Basic		153
6	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		119
7	Dutch (nl) Visual Basic		99
8	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		98
9	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		95
10	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		89

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	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		2
2	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		1
3	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		1
4	French (fr) Visual Basic		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Visual Basic		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Visual Basic		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Visual Basic		0
8	Catalan (ca) Visual Basic		0
9	Czech (cs) Visual Basic		0
10	Danish (da) Visual Basic		0

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

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