Closure (computer programming)

Quality:

Closure - technique for creating lexically scoped first class functions. Article "Closure (computer programming)" in Simple English Wikipedia has 15 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 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 869 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 867 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1331 in October 2014
• Global: #8849 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1690 in April 2017
• Global: #30622 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, 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) Closure (computer programming)		47.8869
2	Czech (cs) Uzávěr (programování)		42.3087
3	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		42.1821
4	Greek (el) Κλείσιμο (επιστήμη υπολογιστών)		38.3753
5	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		32.6971
6	Serbian (sr) Затворење (програмирање)		27.0583
7	Tamil (ta) அடைப்பு (கணினியியல்)		26.1338
8	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		24.5074
9	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		19.7488
10	Persian (fa) بستار (علوم رایانه)		19.3237

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		3 894 889
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		650 310
3	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		473 753
4	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		234 040
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		154 097
6	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		122 398
7	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		82 337
8	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		70 765
9	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		49 720
10	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		42 209

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)		9 567
2	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		916
3	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		644
4	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		601
5	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		458
6	Simple English (simple) Closure (computer programming)		438
7	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		161
8	Ukrainian (uk) Замикання (програмування)		104
9	Polish (pl) Domknięcie (programowanie)		88
10	Portuguese (pt) Clausura (ciência da computação)		84

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)		330
2	German (de) Closure (Funktion)		121
3	French (fr) Fermeture (informatique)		69
4	Russian (ru) Замыкание (программирование)		61
5	Italian (it) Chiusura (informatica)		48
6	Japanese (ja) クロージャ		46
7	Chinese (zh) 闭包 (计算机科学)		28
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	Estonian (et) Sulund (informaatika)		1
2	Serbian (sr) Затворење (програмирање)		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	English (en) Closure (computer programming)		0
8	Spanish (es) Clausura (informática)		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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