AWK

AWK - data-driven programming language made by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. This programming language is the 59^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 80^th most popular programming language in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “AWK” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.79 points.

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

Since the creation of article “AWK”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 1255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

AWK is on the 80^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 59^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 139 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 4380 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #2145 in June 2005
• Global: #217 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #38456 in March 2008
• Global: #25495 in November 2014

There are 39 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) AWK		55.712
2	Estonian (et) AWK		47.1095
3	Chinese (zh) AWK		38.0376
4	Greek (el) AWK		35.5343
5	Hungarian (hu) Awk		33.7161
6	Finnish (fi) AWK		33.172
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Awk		31.223
8	Hebrew (he) AWK		30.8272
9	Romanian (ro) AWK		29.8024
10	Polish (pl) AWK		27.9156

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

The most popular language versions of the article "AWK" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		3 475 390
2	German (de) Awk		645 250
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		525 963
4	Russian (ru) AWK		409 749
5	Spanish (es) AWK		319 228
6	French (fr) Awk		304 356
7	Polish (pl) AWK		279 319
8	Chinese (zh) AWK		145 196
9	Italian (it) Awk		94 414
10	Portuguese (pt) AWK		85 182

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "AWK" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) AWK		7 503
2	German (de) Awk		803
3	Japanese (ja) AWK		677
4	Chinese (zh) AWK		445
5	Russian (ru) AWK		416
6	French (fr) Awk		393
7	Spanish (es) AWK		327
8	Polish (pl) AWK		179
9	Italian (it) Awk		158
10	Czech (cs) AWK		121

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

Language versions of the article "AWK" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) AWK		284
2	German (de) Awk		131
3	French (fr) Awk		84
4	Japanese (ja) AWK		72
5	Italian (it) Awk		67
6	Dutch (nl) AWK		55
7	Russian (ru) AWK		52
8	Spanish (es) AWK		42
9	Hungarian (hu) Awk		42
10	Polish (pl) AWK		39

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

Language versions of the article "AWK" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Awk		1
2	Galician (gl) AWK		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Awk		1
4	Arabic (ar) أوك (لغة برمجة)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) AWK		0
6	Catalan (ca) Awk		0
7	Czech (cs) AWK		0
8	Danish (da) AWK (programmeringssprog)		0
9	Greek (el) AWK		0
10	English (en) AWK		0

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

Language versions of the article "AWK" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) AWK		393
2	Chinese (zh) AWK		333
3	Polish (pl) AWK		322
4	Ukrainian (uk) AWK		314
5	Czech (cs) AWK		254
6	Japanese (ja) AWK		250
7	Italian (it) Awk		222
8	French (fr) Awk		211
9	Russian (ru) AWK		209
10	Hungarian (hu) Awk		175

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أوك (لغة برمجة)
bg	Bulgarian AWK
ca	Catalan Awk
cs	Czech AWK
da	Danish AWK (programmeringssprog)
de	German Awk
el	Greek AWK
en	English AWK
es	Spanish AWK
et	Estonian AWK
fa	Persian AWK
fi	Finnish AWK
fr	French Awk
gl	Galician AWK
he	Hebrew AWK
hr	Croatian AWK
hu	Hungarian Awk
hy	Armenian AWK
it	Italian Awk
ja	Japanese AWK
ko	Korean AWK
ms	Malay AWK
nl	Dutch AWK
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Awk
no	Norwegian Awk
pl	Polish AWK
pt	Portuguese AWK
ro	Romanian AWK
ru	Russian AWK
sh	Serbo-Croatian AWK
simple	Simple English Awk
sk	Slovak AWK
sr	Serbian AWK
sv	Swedish Awk
th	Thai ภาษาออว์ก
tr	Turkish AWK
uk	Ukrainian AWK
vi	Vietnamese AWK
zh	Chinese AWK

Best Rank

Portuguese: #38456 03.2008

Global: #25495 11.2014

Best Rank

Portuguese: #2145 06.2005

Global: #217 08.2001

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