Go (programming language)

Quality:

Go - programming language developed by Google and the open-source community. This software is the 47^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 169^th most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia and the 56^th most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Go (programming language)" in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 10 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 169^th most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 56^th most popular in programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 47^th most popular in software.

The 14^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "Go (programming language)", its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1863 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Go is on the 169^th place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 47^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Go is on the 56^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9268 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3381 in April 2021
• Global: #281 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18400 in December 2021
• Global: #4038 in August 2022

There are 44 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Go (programming language)		85.7143
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Go (pian-têng gú-giân)		71.1793
3	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		69.6246
4	Uzbek (uz) Go (dasturlash tili)		64.2752
5	Chinese (zh) Go		62.6927
6	Russian (ru) Go		52.1791
7	Estonian (et) Go (programmeerimiskeel)		51.6988
8	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		48.5288
9	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		47.7235
10	Persian (fa) گو (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		46.4121

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		12 013 703
2	Russian (ru) Go		2 455 972
3	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		933 581
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		926 774
5	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		859 870
6	Chinese (zh) Go		839 535
7	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		826 314
8	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		358 810
9	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		227 648
10	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		206 824

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) Go (programming language)		59 395
2	Russian (ru) Go		11 772
3	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		4 215
4	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		3 436
5	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		3 355
6	Chinese (zh) Go		3 215
7	French (fr) Go (langage)		2 746
8	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		2 062
9	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		1 517
10	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		1 054

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		646
2	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		143
3	Russian (ru) Go		125
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		114
5	Chinese (zh) Go		94
6	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		71
7	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		60
8	Italian (it) Go (linguaggio di programmazione)		45
9	Hebrew (he) Go (שפת תכנות)		44
10	Ukrainian (uk) Go (мова програмування)		36

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) Go (programming language)		5
2	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		2
3	Belarusian (be) Go (мова праграмавання)		1
4	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		1
5	Chinese (zh) Go		1
6	Arabic (ar) غو (لغة برمجة)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Go (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Go (език за програмиране)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Go (llenguatge de programació)		0
10	Czech (cs) Go (programovací jazyk)		0

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

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