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FRACTRAN - Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by John Conway. This programming language is the 343rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 77th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “FRACTRAN” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 343rd 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 120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

FRACTRAN is on the 77th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 343rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1245 in January 2025
  • Global: #100987 in April 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #17760 in January 2025
  • Global: #169775 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, 2025 (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
32.2518
2Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
30.087
3English (en)
FRACTRAN
29.4833
4German (de)
FRACTRAN
21.833
5Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
17.5581
6Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
14.4785
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
11.5596
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
8.3258
9Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
6.5647
10Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
0.7886
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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
294 719
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
37 786
3German (de)
FRACTRAN
24 665
4Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
23 912
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
3 880
6Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
1 400
7Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
1 307
8Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
693
9Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
690
10Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
610
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
FRACTRAN
1 295
2Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
167
3Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
138
4French (fr)
FRACTRAN
130
5German (de)
FRACTRAN
81
6Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
75
7Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
36
8Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
34
9Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
12
10Ukrainian (uk)
FRACTRAN
12
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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
43
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
35
3German (de)
FRACTRAN
17
4Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
7
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
4
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 2025

Language versions of the article "FRACTRAN" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
FRACTRAN
1
2German (de)
FRACTRAN
0
3French (fr)
FRACTRAN
0
4Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
0
5Japanese (ja)
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
174
2French (fr)
FRACTRAN
20
3English (en)
FRACTRAN
19
4German (de)
FRACTRAN
5
5Japanese (ja)
FRACTRAN
2
6Italian (it)
FRACTRAN
1
7Korean (ko)
FRACTRAN
1
8Russian (ru)
FRACTRAN
1
9Polish (pl)
FRACTRAN
0
10Simple English (simple)
FRACTRAN
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

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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:
#17760
01.2025
Global:
#169775
04.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1245
01.2025
Global:
#100987
04.2015

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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