ALGOL

ALGOL - family of imperative computer programming languages. This programming language is the 82^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 104^th most popular programming language in Chinese Wikipedia. Article “ALGOL” in Chinese Wikipedia has 21.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.11 points.

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

Since the creation of article “ALGOL”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 1220 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

ALGOL is on the 104^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Chinese Wikipedia and on the 82^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 72 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 4168 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #7885 in November 2024
• Global: #778 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #32306 in November 2009
• Global: #18087 in March 2014

There are 42 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, 2026 (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) ALGOL		44.6815
2	Malay (ms) ALGOL		41.6545
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		37.3692
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		27.2685
5	Esperanto (eo) Algolo (programlingvo)		22.175
6	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		21.0784
7	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		19.9429
8	Russian (ru) Алгол		18.9339
9	Finnish (fi) ALGOL		18.5761
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) ALGOL		18.4799

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL		1 989 251
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		541 992
3	Spanish (es) ALGOL		341 474
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		222 484
5	German (de) ALGOL		195 839
6	French (fr) Algol (langage)		150 579
7	Polish (pl) ALGOL		142 334
8	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		114 971
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		88 586
10	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		66 921

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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 "ALGOL" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL		4 058
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		1 216
3	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		619
4	German (de) ALGOL		393
5	French (fr) Algol (langage)		317
6	Spanish (es) ALGOL		261
7	Italian (it) ALGOL		181
8	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		177
9	Polish (pl) ALGOL		154
10	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		130

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ALGOL		324
2	French (fr) Algol (langage)		88
3	Russian (ru) Алгол		77
4	Italian (it) ALGOL		60
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		51
6	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		50
7	German (de) ALGOL		46
8	Spanish (es) ALGOL		46
9	Danish (da) ALGOL		42
10	Polish (pl) ALGOL		38

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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 "ALGOL" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ألغول (لغة برمجة)		1
2	Danish (da) ALGOL		1
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		1
4	Hungarian (hu) ALGOL		1
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Algol dili		0
7	Belarusian (be) Алгол		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) ALGOL		0
9	Catalan (ca) ALGOL		0
10	Czech (cs) ALGOL		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 "ALGOL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) ALGOL		519
2	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		335
3	Russian (ru) Алгол		323
4	Ukrainian (uk) ALGOL		253
5	Polish (pl) ALGOL		243
6	French (fr) Algol (langage)		242
7	Czech (cs) ALGOL		183
8	Norwegian (no) ALGOL		166
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		132
10	Korean (ko) 알골 (프로그래밍 언어)		116

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ألغول (لغة برمجة)
az	Azerbaijani Algol dili
be	Belarusian Алгол
bg	Bulgarian ALGOL
ca	Catalan ALGOL
cs	Czech ALGOL
da	Danish ALGOL
de	German ALGOL
el	Greek ALGOL
en	English ALGOL
eo	Esperanto Algolo (programlingvo)
es	Spanish ALGOL
eu	Basque ALGOL
fa	Persian الگول
fi	Finnish ALGOL
fr	French Algol (langage)
gl	Galician Algol
he	Hebrew ALGOL
hu	Hungarian ALGOL
hy	Armenian Ալգոլ (անվանում)
it	Italian ALGOL
ja	Japanese ALGOL
kk	Kazakh Алгол
ko	Korean 알골 (프로그래밍 언어)
ms	Malay ALGOL
nl	Dutch Algol (programmeertaal)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) ALGOL
no	Norwegian ALGOL
pl	Polish ALGOL
pt	Portuguese ALGOL
ro	Romanian ALGOL
ru	Russian Алгол
sh	Serbo-Croatian ALGOL
sk	Slovak ALGOL
sl	Slovenian ALGOL
sr	Serbian ALGOL
sv	Swedish Algol (programspråk)
tr	Turkish ALGOL
uk	Ukrainian ALGOL
uz	Uzbek ALGOL
vi	Vietnamese ALGOL
zh	Chinese ALGOL

Best Rank

Chinese: #32306 11.2009

Global: #18087 03.2014

Best Rank

Chinese: #7885 11.2024

Global: #778 08.2001

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