BASIC

Quality:

BASIC - programming language for beginners, mainly using familiar English words or abbreviations of them. This programming language is the 21^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 17^th most popular programming language in Italian Wikipedia. Article “BASIC” in Italian Wikipedia has 39.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 17^th most popular in programming languages in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6044^th most popular in AI.

The 21^st most popular in programming languages.

In June 2025 the article “BASIC” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “BASIC”, its content was written by 124 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 3240 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6044^th place).

BASIC is on the 17^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Italian Wikipedia and on the 21^st place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 484 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 10257 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #441 in February 2005
• Global: #2 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #8148 in June 2009
• Global: #6868 in February 2008

There are 50 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) BASIC		90.8276
2	Hebrew (he) BASIC		48.0696
3	Catalan (ca) BASIC		41.5194
4	Italian (it) BASIC		39.1139
5	French (fr) Basic (langage)		37.4969
6	Russian (ru) Бейсик		35.1898
7	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		33.7665
8	Chinese (zh) BASIC		30.7908
9	Spanish (es) BASIC		30.6878
10	Basque (eu) BASIC		30.0131

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BASIC		8 066 986
2	Spanish (es) BASIC		1 725 076
3	Russian (ru) Бейсик		1 161 286
4	Japanese (ja) BASIC		1 093 931
5	German (de) BASIC		930 604
6	French (fr) Basic (langage)		636 923
7	Italian (it) BASIC		501 461
8	Polish (pl) BASIC		399 652
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		381 900
10	Indonesian (id) BASIC		279 873

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) BASIC		18 320
2	Russian (ru) Бейсик		2 404
3	Japanese (ja) BASIC		2 159
4	Spanish (es) BASIC		1 606
5	German (de) BASIC		1 510
6	French (fr) Basic (langage)		1 218
7	Italian (it) BASIC		879
8	Chinese (zh) BASIC		841
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		628
10	Polish (pl) BASIC		555

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BASIC		786
2	French (fr) Basic (langage)		294
3	German (de) BASIC		252
4	Spanish (es) BASIC		159
5	Russian (ru) Бейсик		152
6	Japanese (ja) BASIC		131
7	Italian (it) BASIC		124
8	Dutch (nl) BASIC		119
9	Hebrew (he) BASIC		85
10	Chinese (zh) BASIC		71

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	German (de) BASIC		2
2	English (en) BASIC		2
3	French (fr) Basic (langage)		2
4	Latin (la) BASIC		2
5	Russian (ru) Бейсик		2
6	Spanish (es) BASIC		1
7	Italian (it) BASIC		1
8	Arabic (ar) بيسيك		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) BASIC		0
10	Belarusian (be) BASIC		0

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

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