ALGOL

ALGOL - family of imperative computer programming languages. This programming language is the 81^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 105^th most popular programming language in Chinese Wikipedia. Article “ALGOL” in Chinese Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “ALGOL” was edited by 1 authors in Chinese Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “ALGOL”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 1204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

ALGOL is on the 105^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Chinese Wikipedia and on the 81^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 65 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 4236 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #7895 in November 2024
• Global: #705 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #32153 in November 2009
• Global: #17801 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, 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) ALGOL		44.8607
2	Malay (ms) ALGOL		40.8487
3	Greek (el) ALGOL		37.0863
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		27.2875
5	Esperanto (eo) Algolo (programlingvo)		22.4867
6	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		22.1816
7	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		19.9876
8	Russian (ru) Алгол		18.9059
9	Finnish (fi) ALGOL		18.5544
10	Danish (da) ALGOL		18.5015

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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		1 928 120
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		509 711
3	Spanish (es) ALGOL		337 440
4	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		214 926
5	German (de) ALGOL		190 157
6	French (fr) Algol (langage)		145 726
7	Polish (pl) ALGOL		139 724
8	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		113 114
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		85 971
10	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		63 762

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL		5 280
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		1 374
3	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		692
4	German (de) ALGOL		436
5	French (fr) Algol (langage)		426
6	Spanish (es) ALGOL		304
7	Italian (it) ALGOL		244
8	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		214
9	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL		199
10	Polish (pl) ALGOL		178

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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		321
2	French (fr) Algol (langage)		87
3	Russian (ru) Алгол		76
4	Italian (it) ALGOL		59
5	Dutch (nl) Algol (programmeertaal)		51
6	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		47
7	German (de) ALGOL		46
8	Spanish (es) ALGOL		43
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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) ALGOL		1
2	Chinese (zh) ALGOL		1
3	Arabic (ar) ألغول (لغة برمجة)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Algol dili		0
5	Belarusian (be) Алгол		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) ALGOL		0
7	Catalan (ca) ALGOL		0
8	Czech (cs) ALGOL		0
9	Danish (da) ALGOL		0
10	German (de) 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		529
2	Russian (ru) Алгол		451
3	Japanese (ja) ALGOL		347
4	Ukrainian (uk) ALGOL		261
5	French (fr) Algol (langage)		245
6	Polish (pl) ALGOL		245
7	Czech (cs) ALGOL		196
8	Norwegian (no) ALGOL (programmeringsspråk)		165
9	Italian (it) ALGOL		131
10	German (de) ALGOL		112

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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 (programmeringsspråk)
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: #32153 11.2009

Global: #17801 03.2014

Best Rank

Chinese: #7895 11.2024

Global: #705 08.2001

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