HLSL

High Level Shader Language - shading language. This programming language is the 137^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 182^nd most popular programming language in Ukrainian Wikipedia. Article “HLSL” in Ukrainian Wikipedia has 1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.05 points.

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

Since the creation of article “HLSL”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Ukrainian Wikipedia and edited by 313 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

High Level Shader Language is on the 182^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in Ukrainian Wikipedia and on the 137^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Ukrainian Wikipedia and cited 816 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Ukrainian): #33332 in June 2014
• Global: #43786 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Ukrainian): #84461 in February 2021
• Global: #83270 in January 2008

There are 17 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) High-Level Shader Language		41.0894
2	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		40.6051
3	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		31.0448
4	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		30.2278
5	Russian (ru) HLSL		23.8762
6	Catalan (ca) High-Level Shader Language		23.8696
7	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		22.8015
8	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		22.4096
9	Turkish (tr) Yüksek-Seviye Gölgelendirme Dili		13.9472
10	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		11.9147

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

The most popular language versions of the article "HLSL" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		1 235 472
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		189 295
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		113 544
4	German (de) High Level Shading Language		76 485
5	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		65 914
6	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		30 555
7	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		28 056
8	Korean (ko) 고급 셰이더 언어		22 166
9	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		19 920
10	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		10 705

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "HLSL" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		2 839
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		325
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		243
4	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		224
5	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		113
6	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		112
7	German (de) High Level Shading Language		106
8	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		34
9	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		26
10	Portuguese (pt) HLSL		23

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

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		112
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		36
3	German (de) High Level Shading Language		33
4	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		20
5	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		20
6	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		18
7	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		18
8	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		16
9	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		14
10	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		6

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

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		1
2	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		0
3	Catalan (ca) High-Level Shader Language		0
4	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		0
5	German (de) High Level Shading Language		0
6	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		0
7	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		0
8	Persian (fa) زبان سایه‌زنی سطح بالا		0
9	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		0
10	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		0

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

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		224
2	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		149
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		95
4	Portuguese (pt) HLSL		60
5	Ukrainian (uk) HLSL		52
6	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		37
7	Korean (ko) 고급 셰이더 언어		37
8	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		33
9	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		30
10	Russian (ru) HLSL		30

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لغة التظليل عالية المستوى
ca	Catalan High-Level Shader Language
cs	Czech High Level Shader Language
de	German High Level Shading Language
en	English High-Level Shader Language
es	Spanish High Level Shader Language
fa	Persian زبان سایه‌زنی سطح بالا
fr	French High-Level Shading Language
it	Italian High Level Shader Language
ja	Japanese High Level Shading Language
ko	Korean 고급 셰이더 언어
nl	Dutch High Level Shader Language
pt	Portuguese HLSL
ru	Russian HLSL
tr	Turkish Yüksek-Seviye Gölgelendirme Dili
uk	Ukrainian HLSL
zh	Chinese 高级着色器语言

Best Rank

Ukrainian: #84461 02.2021

Global: #83270 01.2008

Best Rank

Ukrainian: #33332 06.2014

Global: #43786 02.2010

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