Closure (computer programming)

Quality:

Closure - technique for creating lexically scoped first class functions. Article “Closure (computer programming)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Closure (computer programming)”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 876 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 853 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1328 in October 2014
• Global: #8861 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1695 in April 2017
• Global: #31039 in June 2014

There are 25 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) Closure (computer programming)		48.0602
2	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		42.0365
3	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		41.7629
4	Greek (el) Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)		38.6549
5	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		32.6365
6	Tamil (ta) அடைப்பு (கணினியியல்)		26.1331
7	Serbian (sr) Затворење (програмирање)		25.5291
8	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		24.5053
9	Persian (fa) بستار (علوم رایانه)		19.0781
10	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		18.8704

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		3 975 071
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		675 058
3	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		481 151
4	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		239 125
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		159 076
6	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		124 442
7	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		83 551
8	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		71 577
9	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		49 662
10	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		42 834

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) Closure (computer programming)		5 362
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		426
3	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		362
4	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		346
5	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		271
6	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		150
7	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		105
8	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		50
9	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		38
10	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		34

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		335
2	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		121
3	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		70
4	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		62
5	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		48
6	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		47
7	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		29
8	Dutch (nl) Closure		21
9	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		15
10	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		15

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) Closure (computer programming)		2
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Затваряне (информатика)		0
4	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		0
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		0
6	Greek (el) Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)		0
7	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		0
8	Estonian (et) Sulund (informaatika)		0
9	Persian (fa) بستار (علوم رایانه)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Sulkeuma (ohjelmointi)		0

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

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