Perl

Quality:

This programming language is the 21^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 5^th most popular programming language in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Perl” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 34.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 10 sections.

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:

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The 1436^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 5^th most popular in programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4552^nd most popular in AI.

The 21^st most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 2770^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Perl”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 3761 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4552^nd place).

Perl is on the 5^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 21^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 31 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 13133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #73 in April 2020
• Global: #31 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #29 in December 2025
• Global: #4129 in November 2025

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) Perl		84.281
2	Korean (ko) 펄		80.98
3	Chinese (zh) Perl		71.9908
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		59.3496
5	Russian (ru) Perl		50.6353
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Perl		49.5108
7	Tamil (ta) பெர்ள்		46.9002
8	Spanish (es) Perl		45.1237
9	Hungarian (hu) Perl (programozási nyelv)		44.7038
10	Persian (fa) پرل		43.2927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perl		9 794 014
2	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 660 541
3	Russian (ru) Perl		1 508 234
4	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 316 430
5	Spanish (es) Perl		1 235 207
6	French (fr) Perl (langage)		716 548
7	Chinese (zh) Perl		621 845
8	Polish (pl) Perl		567 765
9	Portuguese (pt) Perl		373 660
10	Italian (it) Perl		305 206

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) Perl		13 423
2	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		1 594
3	Japanese (ja) Perl		1 364
4	Russian (ru) Perl		1 158
5	French (fr) Perl (langage)		780
6	Chinese (zh) Perl		752
7	Spanish (es) Perl		449
8	Italian (it) Perl		301
9	Polish (pl) Perl		290
10	Portuguese (pt) Perl		210

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perl		1 155
2	German (de) Perl (Programmiersprache)		401
3	French (fr) Perl (langage)		231
4	Russian (ru) Perl		204
5	Italian (it) Perl		118
6	Spanish (es) Perl		112
7	Japanese (ja) Perl		108
8	Chinese (zh) Perl		100
9	Dutch (nl) Perl (programmeertaal)		96
10	Polish (pl) Perl		77

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) Perl		3
2	Arabic (ar) بيرل		2
3	Korean (ko) 펄		2
4	Czech (cs) Perl		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Perl		1
6	Spanish (es) Perl		1
7	French (fr) Perl (langage)		1
8	Hebrew (he) Perl		1
9	Japanese (ja) Perl		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Perl		0

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