COBOL

Quality:

COBOL - programming language with English-like syntax. This programming language is the 22nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 17th most popular programming language in Slovenian Wikipedia. Article "COBOL" in Slovenian Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

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

Achievements in all the time:
Slovenian Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 22nd most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "COBOL", its content was written by 7 registered users of Slovenian Wikipedia and edited by 2259 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

COBOL is on the 17th place in local ranking of programming languages in Slovenian Wikipedia and on the 22nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 34 times in Slovenian Wikipedia and cited 6252 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Slovenian): #557 in January 2006
  • Global: #129 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Slovenian): #646 in October 2011
  • Global: #1430 in December 2013

There are 51 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Korean (ko)
코볼
85.0366
2English (en)
COBOL
81.0674
3Catalan (ca)
COBOL
64.3293
4Min Nan (zhminnan)
COBOL
53.285
5Spanish (es)
COBOL
50.6038
6Portuguese (pt)
COBOL
42.8764
7French (fr)
Cobol
37.0119
8German (de)
COBOL
34.8783
9Finnish (fi)
COBOL
34.6127
10Ukrainian (uk)
COBOL
28.5501
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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 "COBOL" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
COBOL
8 047 134
2Spanish (es)
COBOL
1 607 762
3Japanese (ja)
COBOL
1 530 844
4German (de)
COBOL
994 056
5French (fr)
Cobol
826 168
6Portuguese (pt)
COBOL
682 134
7Russian (ru)
Кобол
510 570
8Polish (pl)
COBOL
376 577
9Italian (it)
COBOL
352 418
10Chinese (zh)
COBOL
281 230
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "COBOL" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
COBOL
34 607
2German (de)
COBOL
5 098
3Japanese (ja)
COBOL
3 772
4Spanish (es)
COBOL
3 567
5French (fr)
Cobol
2 645
6Chinese (zh)
COBOL
2 330
7Polish (pl)
COBOL
1 972
8Portuguese (pt)
COBOL
1 815
9Russian (ru)
Кобол
1 795
10Italian (it)
COBOL
1 480
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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 "COBOL" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
COBOL
589
2German (de)
COBOL
211
3French (fr)
Cobol
160
4Italian (it)
COBOL
118
5Spanish (es)
COBOL
106
6Dutch (nl)
COBOL
103
7Japanese (ja)
COBOL
82
8Portuguese (pt)
COBOL
75
9Russian (ru)
Кобол
70
10Polish (pl)
COBOL
61
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "COBOL" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Dutch (nl)
COBOL
2
2Polish (pl)
COBOL
2
3Arabic (ar)
كوبول
1
4German (de)
COBOL
1
5English (en)
COBOL
1
6Korean (ko)
코볼
1
7Serbian (sr)
COBOL
1
8Azerbaijani (az)
COBOL
0
9Belarusian (be)
COBOL
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
COBOL
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 "COBOL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
COBOL
1 224
2Japanese (ja)
COBOL
485
3Chinese (zh)
COBOL
344
4Ukrainian (uk)
COBOL
303
5Korean (ko)
코볼
289
6Russian (ru)
Кобол
283
7French (fr)
Cobol
258
8Portuguese (pt)
COBOL
245
9Polish (pl)
COBOL
225
10Norwegian (no)
COBOL
165
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Scores

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Popularity in July 2024:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كوبول
azAzerbaijani
COBOL
beBelarusian
COBOL
bgBulgarian
COBOL
caCatalan
COBOL
csCzech
COBOL
daDanish
COBOL
deGerman
COBOL
elGreek
COBOL
enEnglish
COBOL
eoEsperanto
Kobolo
esSpanish
COBOL
etEstonian
COBOL
euBasque
COBOL
faPersian
کوبول
fiFinnish
COBOL
frFrench
Cobol
glGalician
COBOL
heHebrew
COBOL
hrCroatian
COBOL
huHungarian
COBOL
hyArmenian
Կոբոլ
idIndonesian
COBOL
itItalian
COBOL
jaJapanese
COBOL
kaGeorgian
კობოლი
koKorean
코볼
laLatin
COBOL
ltLithuanian
COBOL
msMalay
COBOL
nlDutch
COBOL
noNorwegian
COBOL
plPolish
COBOL
ptPortuguese
COBOL
roRomanian
COBOL
ruRussian
Кобол
shSerbo-Croatian
COBOL
simpleSimple English
COBOL
skSlovak
COBOL
slSlovenian
COBOL
srSerbian
COBOL
svSwedish
COBOL
taTamil
கோபால் (நிரலாக்க மொழி)
thThai
ภาษาโคบอล
trTurkish
COBOL
ukUkrainian
COBOL
urUrdu
کوبول
uzUzbek
COBOL
viVietnamese
COBOL
zhChinese
COBOL
zhminnanMin Nan
COBOL

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Slovenian:
#646
10.2011
Global:
#1430
12.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Slovenian:
#557
01.2006
Global:
#129
02.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on COBOL from Wikipedia articles about Grace Hopper, History of programming languages, List of programming languages, Fortran and Programming language. Whereas reading the article about COBOL people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Grace Hopper, FLOW-MATIC, Fortran, CODASYL and Mainframe computer.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: COBOL
es: COBOL
ja: COBOL
de: COBOL
fr: Cobol
pt: COBOL
pl: COBOL
it: COBOL
zh: COBOL
nl: COBOL
sv: COBOL
id: COBOL
ko: 코볼
tr: COBOL
cs: COBOL
fi: COBOL
he: COBOL
hu: COBOL
vi: COBOL
uk: COBOL
ro: COBOL
da: COBOL
no: COBOL
el: COBOL
ca: COBOL
simple: COBOL
hr: COBOL
bg: COBOL
sk: COBOL
sr: COBOL
sl: COBOL
lt: COBOL
ms: COBOL
az: COBOL
sh: COBOL
gl: COBOL
et: COBOL
eo: Kobolo
eu: COBOL
uz: COBOL
be: COBOL
la: COBOL
zhminnan: COBOL

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