BASIC

Quality:

BASIC - programming language for beginners, mainly using familiar English words or abbreviations of them. This programming language is the 20^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 19^th most popular programming language in Japanese Wikipedia. Article "BASIC" in Japanese Wikipedia has 29.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 32 references and 23 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

The 19^th most popular in programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6049^th most popular in AI.

The 20^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "BASIC", its content was written by 128 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 3152 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6049^th place).

BASIC is on the 19^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 708 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 10045 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #52 in February 2003
• Global: #2 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #12459 in April 2008
• Global: #6877 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 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) BASIC		93.938
2	Hebrew (he) BASIC		48.619
3	Catalan (ca) BASIC		41.5824
4	Italian (it) BASIC		39.2133
5	Russian (ru) Бейсик		33.6816
6	Spanish (es) BASIC		30.9628
7	Chinese (zh) BASIC		30.8827
8	Ukrainian (uk) BASIC		30.4071
9	French (fr) Basic (langage)		30.3675
10	Basque (eu) BASIC		30.1475

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BASIC		7 826 981
2	Spanish (es) BASIC		1 700 487
3	Russian (ru) Бейсик		1 104 231
4	Japanese (ja) BASIC		1 066 878
5	German (de) BASIC		905 948
6	French (fr) Basic (langage)		617 432
7	Italian (it) BASIC		484 999
8	Polish (pl) BASIC		390 349
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		374 739
10	Indonesian (id) BASIC		275 073

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		20 809
2	Russian (ru) Бейсик		3 107
3	Japanese (ja) BASIC		2 583
4	Chinese (zh) BASIC		2 578
5	Spanish (es) BASIC		2 134
6	German (de) BASIC		1 916
7	French (fr) Basic (langage)		1 261
8	Italian (it) BASIC		1 027
9	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		622
10	Polish (pl) BASIC		554

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BASIC		766
2	French (fr) Basic (langage)		275
3	German (de) BASIC		244
4	Spanish (es) BASIC		154
5	Russian (ru) Бейсик		150
6	Japanese (ja) BASIC		128
7	Italian (it) BASIC		119
8	Dutch (nl) BASIC		119
9	Hebrew (he) BASIC		84
10	Chinese (zh) BASIC		69

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) BASIC		4
2	Chinese (zh) BASIC		2
3	Esperanto (eo) BASIC (programlingvo)		1
4	Indonesian (id) BASIC		1
5	Dutch (nl) BASIC		1
6	Polish (pl) BASIC		1
7	Portuguese (pt) BASIC		1
8	Russian (ru) Бейсик		1
9	Serbian (sr) BASIC		1
10	Arabic (ar) بيسيك		0

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

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