ALGOL

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ALGOL - family of imperative computer programming languages. This programming language is the 81^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 15^th most popular programming language in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “ALGOL” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 6.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.34 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

The 15^th most popular in programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 81^st most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “ALGOL”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 1204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

ALGOL is on the 15^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 81^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 30 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 4236 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #269 in December 2005
• Global: #705 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #3101 in August 2009
• Global: #17801 in March 2014

There are 42 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) ALGOL		44.8607
2	Malay (ms) ALGOL		40.8487
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		37.0863
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		27.2875
5	Esperanto (eo) Algolo (programlingvo)		22.4867
6	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		22.1816
7	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		19.9876
8	Russian (ru) Алгол		18.9059
9	Finnish (fi) ALGOL		18.5544
10	Danish (da) ALGOL		18.5015

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL		1 928 120
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		509 711
3	Spanish (es) ALGOL		337 440
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		214 926
5	German (de) ALGOL		190 157
6	French (fr) Algol (langage)		145 726
7	Polish (pl) ALGOL		139 724
8	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		113 114
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		85 971
10	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		63 762

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) ALGOL		5 280
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		1 374
3	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		692
4	German (de) ALGOL		436
5	French (fr) Algol (langage)		426
6	Spanish (es) ALGOL		304
7	Italian (it) ALGOL		244
8	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		214
9	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		199
10	Polish (pl) ALGOL		178

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ALGOL		321
2	French (fr) Algol (langage)		87
3	Russian (ru) Алгол		76
4	Italian (it) ALGOL		59
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		51
6	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		47
7	German (de) ALGOL		46
8	Spanish (es) ALGOL		43
9	Danish (da) ALGOL		42
10	Polish (pl) ALGOL		38

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	Greek (el) ALGOL		1
2	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		1
3	Arabic (ar) ألغول (لغة برمجة)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Algol dili		0
5	Belarusian (be) Алгол		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) ALGOL		0
7	Catalan (ca) ALGOL		0
8	Czech (cs) ALGOL		0
9	Danish (da) ALGOL		0
10	German (de) ALGOL		0

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

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