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FRACTRAN - Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by John Conway. This programming language is the 336th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 80th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “FRACTRAN” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 336th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “FRACTRAN”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

FRACTRAN is on the 80th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 336th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1230 in January 2025
  • Global: #101154 in April 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #17701 in January 2025
  • Global: #170329 in April 2017

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
FRACTRAN
32.2368
2Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
30.0005
3English (en)
FRACTRAN
29.4331
4German (de)
FRACTRAN
21.6319
5Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
16.4337
6Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
14.3628
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
11.5054
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
8.3411
9Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
6.5756
10Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
0.7794
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
FRACTRAN
312 430
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
39 132
3German (de)
FRACTRAN
25 735
4Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
24 666
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
5 443
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
1 636
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
1 603
8Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
811
9Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
685
10Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
678
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
FRACTRAN
1 224
2Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
132
3French (fr)
FRACTRAN
95
4German (de)
FRACTRAN
75
5Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
51
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
21
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
15
8Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
12
9Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
10
10Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
FRACTRAN
46
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
38
3German (de)
FRACTRAN
18
4Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
7
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
7
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
4
7Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
3
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
3
9Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
3
10Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
FRACTRAN
1
2Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
1
3German (de)
FRACTRAN
0
4English (en)
FRACTRAN
0
5Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
0
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
0
7Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
0
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
0
9Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
173
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
20
3English (en)
FRACTRAN
17
4German (de)
FRACTRAN
5
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
2
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
2
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
1
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
1
9Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
0
10Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
0
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
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enEnglish
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frFrench
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itItalian
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jaJapanese
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koKorean
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plPolish
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ruRussian
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simpleSimple English
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ukUkrainian
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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#17701
01.2025
Global:
#170329
04.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1230
01.2025
Global:
#101154
04.2015

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on FRACTRAN from Wikipedia articles about Esoteric programming language, Collatz conjecture, John Horton Conway, One-instruction set computer and Turing tarpit. Whereas reading the article about FRACTRAN people most often go to Wikipedia articles on One-instruction set computer, John Horton Conway, Esoteric programming language, Gödel numbering and Collatz conjecture.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: FRACTRAN

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