Referential transparency

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Referential transparency

Quality:

Referential transparency - property of a computer software expression or subroutine that replacing it in the code with its evaluated result does not change the program's behavior. Article “Referential transparency” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Referential transparency”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 186 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1226 in May 2019
  • Global: #14724 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #23061 in June 2025
  • Global: #206167 in January 2008

There are 16 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Referential transparency
26.744
2Chinese (zh)
引用透明性
18.8136
3Polish (pl)
Przejrzystość referencyjna
15.9987
4Simple English (simple)
Referential transparency
15.255
5German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
10.9781
6Ukrainian (uk)
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
10.6173
7Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
10.17
8French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
8.4425
9Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
6.2145
10Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
5.0227
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Referential transparency" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Referential transparency
658 634
2Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
100 755
3Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
52 521
4German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
39 035
5French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
25 167
6Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
20 668
7Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
12 462
8Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
9 228
9Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
6 053
10Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
4 062
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Referential transparency" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Referential transparency
2 762
2Simple English (simple)
Referential transparency
394
3Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
330
4Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
127
5French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
52
6Chinese (zh)
引用透明性
47
7German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
43
8Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
42
9Czech (cs)
Referenční průhlednost
19
10Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Referential transparency" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Referential transparency
107
2French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
36
3German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
33
4Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
20
5Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
19
6Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
10
7Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
9
8Ukrainian (uk)
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
7
9Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
6
10Malay (ms)
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Referential transparency" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
شفافية مرجعية
0
2Czech (cs)
Referenční průhlednost
0
3German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
0
4English (en)
Referential transparency
0
5Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
0
6French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
0
7Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
0
8Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
0
9Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
0
10Malay (ms)
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Referential transparency" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Referential transparency
56
2Japanese (ja)
参照透過性
26
3French (fr)
Transparence référentielle
18
4German (de)
Referenzielle Transparenz
15
5Czech (cs)
Referenční průhlednost
11
6Spanish (es)
Transparencia referencial
9
7Dutch (nl)
Referentiële transparantie
9
8Russian (ru)
Ссылочная прозрачность
9
9Italian (it)
Trasparenza referenziale
8
10Korean (ko)
참조 투명성
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
شفافية مرجعية
csCzech
Referenční průhlednost
deGerman
Referenzielle Transparenz
enEnglish
Referential transparency
esSpanish
Transparencia referencial
frFrench
Transparence référentielle
itItalian
Trasparenza referenziale
jaJapanese
参照透過性
koKorean
참조 투명성
msMalay
Kelejasan rujukan (sains komputer)
nlDutch
Referentiële transparantie
plPolish
Przejrzystość referencyjna
ruRussian
Ссылочная прозрачность
simpleSimple English
Referential transparency
ukUkrainian
Прозорість посилань (інформатика)
zhChinese
引用透明性

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#23061
06.2025
Global:
#206167
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1226
05.2019
Global:
#14724
11.2002

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Referential transparency from Wikipedia articles about Declarative programming, Idempotence, Functional programming, Pure function and Command–query separation. Whereas reading the article about Referential transparency people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Rewriting, Liskov substitution principle, Analytic philosophy, Lambda calculus and Opaque context.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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