Java (programming language)

Quality:

Java - object-oriented programming language. This software is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 3^rd most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia and the 2^nd most popular programming language in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Java (programming language)" in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 8 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:

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The 663^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 773^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 2^nd most popular in programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 899^th most popular in all topics.

The 511^th most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in software.

The 2^nd most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1214^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Java (programming language)", its content was written by 93 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (773^rd place) and edited by 8007 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (511^th place).

Java is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Java is on the 2^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 134 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 31392 times in all languages (5221^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #91 in May 2017
• Global: #38 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in November 2014
• Global: #8 in December 2015

There are 54 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) Java (programming language)		83.7972
2	Chinese (zh) Java		71.959
3	French (fr) Java (langage)		66.5187
4	Russian (ru) Java		66.0029
5	Finnish (fi) Java		65.7468
6	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		65.3367
7	Basque (eu) Java (programazio-lengoaia)		64.6522
8	Hindi (hi) जावा (प्रोग्रामिंग भाषा)		59.9045
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Java (thêng-sek gí-giân)		55.0171
10	Indonesian (id) Java		54.3117

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Java (programming language)		53 337 969
2	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		7 370 591
3	Russian (ru) Java		6 438 743
4	Japanese (ja) Java		4 955 453
5	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		4 509 461
6	French (fr) Java (langage)		3 341 388
7	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		2 336 625
8	Chinese (zh) Java		1 971 175
9	Polish (pl) Java		1 621 865
10	Arabic (ar) جافا (لغة برمجة)		1 157 567

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) Java (programming language)		57 408
2	Russian (ru) Java		10 864
3	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		6 556
4	Japanese (ja) Java		5 531
5	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		4 550
6	French (fr) Java (langage)		4 454
7	Chinese (zh) Java		3 298
8	Simple English (simple) Java (programming language)		2 624
9	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		2 455
10	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		1 716

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Java (programming language)		2 026
2	German (de) Java (Programmiersprache)		637
3	French (fr) Java (langage)		516
4	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		405
5	Russian (ru) Java		391
6	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		294
7	Chinese (zh) Java		285
8	Japanese (ja) Java		246
9	Dutch (nl) Java (programmeertaal)		209
10	Portuguese (pt) Java (linguagem de programação)		208

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	Spanish (es) Java (lenguaje de programación)		3
2	Italian (it) Java (linguaggio di programmazione)		3
3	Latin (la) Java (lingua programmationis)		3
4	English (en) Java (programming language)		2
5	Indonesian (id) Java		2
6	Japanese (ja) Java		2
7	French (fr) Java (langage)		1
8	Dutch (nl) Java (programmeertaal)		1
9	Russian (ru) Java		1
10	Arabic (ar) جافا (لغة برمجة)		0

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

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