XML

Quality:

XML - markup language by the W3C for encoding of data. This programming language is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 7^th most popular programming language in Russian Wikipedia. Article “XML” in Russian Wikipedia has 38.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.72 points.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 3353^rd most popular in Russian Wikipedia.

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The 5313^th most editable in Russian Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in programming languages in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3303^rd most popular in all topics.

The 3751^st most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “XML” was edited by 1 authors in Russian Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “XML”, its content was written by 180 registered users of Russian Wikipedia (5313^th place) and edited by 4045 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3751^st place).

XML is on the 7^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Russian Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 824 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 18012 times in all languages (9243^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #62 in January 2006
• Global: #74 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #154 in January 2008
• Global: #571 in July 2008

There are 50 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	Tamil (ta) எக்ஸ்எம்எல்		81.3333
2	English (en) XML		60.7747
3	Malay (ms) XML		50.1151
4	Japanese (ja) Extensible Markup Language		47.4501
5	Chinese (zh) XML		45.2931
6	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		44.3414
7	Russian (ru) XML		38.1068
8	Portuguese (pt) XML		36.8446
9	Persian (fa) اکس‌ام‌ال		36.7624
10	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		36.5465

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) XML		23 564 579
2	Russian (ru) XML		4 077 891
3	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		3 976 312
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		3 496 146
5	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		2 345 993
6	Italian (it) XML		1 688 056
7	Japanese (ja) Extensible Markup Language		1 572 168
8	Portuguese (pt) XML		1 479 685
9	Polish (pl) XML		1 463 848
10	Chinese (zh) XML		1 163 059

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) XML		25 091
2	Russian (ru) XML		5 054
3	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		3 629
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		2 348
5	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		2 032
6	Chinese (zh) XML		1 538
7	Japanese (ja) Extensible Markup Language		1 429
8	Italian (it) XML		1 105
9	Portuguese (pt) XML		1 082
10	Polish (pl) XML		762

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) XML		1 043
2	German (de) Extensible Markup Language		395
3	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		311
4	Spanish (es) Extensible Markup Language		182
5	Russian (ru) XML		180
6	Italian (it) XML		175
7	Polish (pl) XML		128
8	Japanese (ja) Extensible Markup Language		115
9	Chinese (zh) XML		111
10	Dutch (nl) Extensible Markup Language		108

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) XML		7
2	Arabic (ar) لغة التأشير الوسوعة		5
3	Italian (it) XML		2
4	French (fr) Extensible Markup Language		1
5	Japanese (ja) Extensible Markup Language		1
6	Polish (pl) XML		1
7	Russian (ru) XML		1
8	Swedish (sv) XML		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) XML		0
10	Belarusian (be) XML		0

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

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