Visual Basic

Quality:

Visual Basic - legacy programming language by Microsoft. This programming language is the 16^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 9^th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article "Visual Basic" in Japanese Wikipedia has 28.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 21 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

The 9^th most popular in programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6246^th most popular in AI.

The 16^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Visual Basic" was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Visual Basic", its content was written by 85 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 3105 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6246^th place).

Visual Basic is on the 9^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 16^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 480 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 5782 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #460 in March 2004
• Global: #296 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #5325 in April 2015
• Global: #4876 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 August 1, 2024 (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)		62.3177
2	Hungarian (hu) Visual Basic		58.2683
3	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		44.9051
4	Hindi (hi) विज़ुअल बेसिक		44.5739
5	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		43.9752
6	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		40.4676
7	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		35.3423
8	Simple English (simple) Visual Basic		35.2326
9	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		30.1582
10	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		28.4769

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		6 737 869
2	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1 915 409
3	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		1 372 873
4	French (fr) Visual Basic		1 259 191
5	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		1 018 604
6	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		954 381
7	Portuguese (pt) Visual Basic		776 177
8	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		772 157
9	Italian (it) Visual Basic		740 516
10	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		541 898

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)		10 327
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		5 364
3	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		2 169
4	Indonesian (id) Visual Basic		1 945
5	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		1 642
6	French (fr) Visual Basic		1 592
7	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		1 334
8	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		1 177
9	Hindi (hi) विज़ुअल बेसिक		1 062
10	Italian (it) Visual Basic		999

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)		854
2	Spanish (es) Visual Basic		279
3	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		177
4	Italian (it) Visual Basic		153
5	French (fr) Visual Basic		147
6	Russian (ru) Visual Basic		119
7	Dutch (nl) Visual Basic		99
8	Chinese (zh) Visual Basic		96
9	Hebrew (he) ויז'ואל בייסיק		92
10	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		85

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	English (en) Visual Basic (classic)		2
2	Japanese (ja) Visual Basic		1
3	Arabic (ar) فيجوال بيسك		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Visual Basic		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Visual Basic		0
6	Catalan (ca) Visual Basic		0
7	Czech (cs) Visual Basic		0
8	Danish (da) Visual Basic		0
9	German (de) Visual Basic Classic		0
10	Greek (el) Visual Basic		0

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

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