TeX

Quality:

TeX - typesetting system. This programming language is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 39^th most popular programming language in Chinese Wikipedia. Article “TeX” in Chinese Wikipedia has 50.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Chinese Wikipedia:

The 39^th most popular in programming languages in Chinese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 43^rd most popular in programming languages.

In June 2026 the article “TeX” was edited by 1 authors in Chinese Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “TeX”, its content was written by 99 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 2251 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

TeX is on the 39^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Chinese Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 273 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 3753 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #29 in April 2003
• Global: #71 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #1292 in March 2009
• Global: #10210 in December 2025

There are 40 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) TeX		70.0854
2	German (de) TeX		59.3926
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) TeX		55.51
4	Indonesian (id) TeX		54.65
5	Chinese (zh) TeX		50.2895
6	Portuguese (pt) TeX		36.6898
7	French (fr) TeX		36.6324
8	Japanese (ja) TeX		36.5179
9	Tamil (ta) டெக்சு		36.3925
10	Serbian (sr) TeX		33.3906

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) TeX		4 058 115
2	Japanese (ja) TeX		1 068 838
3	German (de) TeX		922 461
4	Russian (ru) TeX		751 489
5	Spanish (es) TeX		369 242
6	French (fr) TeX		302 598
7	Chinese (zh) TeX		287 073
8	Polish (pl) TeX		214 724
9	Italian (it) TeX		145 233
10	Czech (cs) TeX		113 254

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) TeX		10 565
2	Japanese (ja) TeX		1 863
3	German (de) TeX		1 086
4	Russian (ru) TeX		748
5	French (fr) TeX		553
6	Chinese (zh) TeX		497
7	Spanish (es) TeX		330
8	Polish (pl) TeX		215
9	Portuguese (pt) TeX		202
10	Czech (cs) TeX		169

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) TeX		611
2	German (de) TeX		260
3	French (fr) TeX		160
4	Russian (ru) TeX		125
5	Japanese (ja) TeX		99
6	Chinese (zh) TeX		99
7	Italian (it) TeX		90
8	Polish (pl) TeX		71
9	Spanish (es) TeX		69
10	Dutch (nl) TeX		65

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	English (en) TeX		8
2	Arabic (ar) تخ (برمجية)		1
3	Catalan (ca) TeX		1
4	Czech (cs) TeX		1
5	Danish (da) TeX		1
6	Basque (eu) TeX		1
7	Armenian (hy) TeX		1
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) TeX		1
9	Serbian (sr) TeX		1
10	Chinese (zh) TeX		1

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

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