Go (programming language)

Quality:

Go - programming language developed by Google and the open-source community. This software is the 47^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 38^th most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 12^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Go (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 187 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 38^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

The 12^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 47^th most popular in software.

The 14^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Go (programming language)" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Go (programming language)", its content was written by 646 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1863 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Go is on the 38^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 47^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Go is on the 12^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1629 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9268 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #174 in November 2009
• Global: #281 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2729 in August 2022
• Global: #4038 in August 2022

There are 44 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Go (programming language)		85.7143
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Go (pian-têng gú-giân)		71.1793
3	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		69.6246
4	Uzbek (uz) Go (dasturlash tili)		64.2752
5	Chinese (zh) Go		62.6927
6	Russian (ru) Go		52.1791
7	Estonian (et) Go (programmeerimiskeel)		51.6988
8	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		48.5288
9	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		47.7235
10	Persian (fa) گو (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		46.4121

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		12 013 703
2	Russian (ru) Go		2 455 972
3	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		933 581
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		926 774
5	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		859 870
6	Chinese (zh) Go		839 535
7	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		826 314
8	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		358 810
9	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		227 648
10	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		206 824

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) Go (programming language)		59 395
2	Russian (ru) Go		11 772
3	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		4 215
4	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		3 436
5	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		3 355
6	Chinese (zh) Go		3 215
7	French (fr) Go (langage)		2 746
8	Portuguese (pt) Go (linguagem de programação)		2 062
9	Indonesian (id) Go (bahasa pemrograman)		1 517
10	Polish (pl) Go (język programowania)		1 054

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Go (programming language)		646
2	German (de) Go (Programmiersprache)		143
3	Russian (ru) Go		125
4	French (fr) Go (langage)		114
5	Chinese (zh) Go		94
6	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		71
7	Japanese (ja) Go (プログラミング言語)		60
8	Italian (it) Go (linguaggio di programmazione)		45
9	Hebrew (he) Go (שפת תכנות)		44
10	Ukrainian (uk) Go (мова програмування)		36

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) Go (programming language)		5
2	Korean (ko) Go (프로그래밍 언어)		2
3	Belarusian (be) Go (мова праграмавання)		1
4	Spanish (es) Go (lenguaje de programación)		1
5	Chinese (zh) Go		1
6	Arabic (ar) غو (لغة برمجة)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Go (proqramlaşdırma dili)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Go (език за програмиране)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Go (llenguatge de programació)		0
10	Czech (cs) Go (programovací jazyk)		0

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

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