ALGOL 68

ALGOL 68 - programming language. This programming language is the 184^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 174^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “ALGOL 68” in English Wikipedia has 66.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 40 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “ALGOL 68” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “ALGOL 68”, its content was written by 233 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 414 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

ALGOL 68 is on the 174^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 184^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 373 times in English Wikipedia and cited 955 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9367 in January 2004
• Global: #23306 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #105267 in September 2014
• Global: #159923 in September 2014

There are 13 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 68		66.7214
2	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		61.6562
3	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		18.8932
4	German (de) Algol 68		18.3371
5	Turkish (tr) ALGOL 68		17.6264
6	Vietnamese (vi) ALGOL 68		12.4342
7	Persian (fa) الگول۶۸		9.3559
8	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		8.9103
9	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		8.189
10	Arabic (ar) الغول 68		6.3075

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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 68" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL 68		755 419
2	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		156 733
3	German (de) Algol 68		70 163
4	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		35 355
5	French (fr) Algol 68		27 205
6	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		19 368
7	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		18 950
8	Slovak (sk) ALGOL 68		4 880
9	Persian (fa) الگول۶۸		4 611
10	Turkish (tr) ALGOL 68		2 467

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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 68" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) ALGOL 68		2 788
2	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		416
3	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		251
4	German (de) Algol 68		131
5	French (fr) Algol 68		107
6	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		78
7	Turkish (tr) ALGOL 68		45
8	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		35
9	Norwegian (no) ALGOL 68		19
10	Arabic (ar) الغول 68		17

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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 68" 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 68		233
2	German (de) Algol 68		47
3	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		35
4	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		25
5	French (fr) Algol 68		21
6	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		13
7	Persian (fa) الگول۶۸		7
8	Slovak (sk) ALGOL 68		7
9	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		7
10	Norwegian (no) ALGOL 68		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 "ALGOL 68" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) ALGOL 68		5
2	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		2
3	Arabic (ar) الغول 68		0
4	German (de) Algol 68		0
5	Persian (fa) الگول۶۸		0
6	French (fr) Algol 68		0
7	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		0
8	Norwegian (no) ALGOL 68		0
9	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		0
10	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		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 68" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) ALGOL 68		373
2	Chinese (zh) ALGOL 68		210
3	Norwegian (no) ALGOL 68		150
4	Russian (ru) Алгол 68		53
5	German (de) Algol 68		38
6	French (fr) Algol 68		34
7	Dutch (nl) Algol 68		21
8	Portuguese (pt) ALGOL 68		21
9	Persian (fa) الگول۶۸		16
10	Arabic (ar) الغول 68		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الغول 68
de	German Algol 68
en	English ALGOL 68
fa	Persian الگول۶۸
fr	French Algol 68
nl	Dutch Algol 68
no	Norwegian ALGOL 68
pt	Portuguese ALGOL 68
ru	Russian Алгол 68
sk	Slovak ALGOL 68
tr	Turkish ALGOL 68
vi	Vietnamese ALGOL 68
zh	Chinese ALGOL 68

Best Rank

English: #105267 09.2014

Global: #159923 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #9367 01.2004

Global: #23306 02.2005

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