BIOS

Quality:

BIOS - common firmware system used to initialize hardware when a computer boots. This software is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 9^th most popular software in Bulgarian Wikipedia. Article “BIOS” in Bulgarian Wikipedia has 5.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.27 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Bulgarian Wikipedia:

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The 5379^th most popular in Bulgarian Wikipedia.

The 9^th most popular in software in Bulgarian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6982^nd most popular in all topics.

The 7334^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “BIOS”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Bulgarian Wikipedia and edited by 2946 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7334^th place).

BIOS is on the 9^th place in local ranking of software in Bulgarian Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 27 times in Bulgarian Wikipedia and cited 4588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Bulgarian): #328 in October 2024
• Global: #532 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Bulgarian): #532 in October 2010
• Global: #1957 in October 2009

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) BIOS		77.4866
2	Estonian (et) Baasvahetussüsteem		52.3533
3	German (de) BIOS		42.1957
4	Esperanto (eo) BIOS		37.9649
5	Chinese (zh) BIOS		37.665
6	Catalan (ca) BIOS		37.3531
7	Czech (cs) BIOS		30.7593
8	Russian (ru) BIOS		30.2946
9	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		30.1719
10	Ukrainian (uk) BIOS		29.6852

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BIOS		10 927 744
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		6 050 259
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		2 598 785
4	Polish (pl) BIOS		1 830 992
5	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 459 994
6	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		1 376 326
7	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 215 612
8	German (de) BIOS		1 150 268
9	Italian (it) BIOS		1 018 200
10	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 017 101

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) BIOS		17 683
2	Russian (ru) BIOS		3 445
3	Spanish (es) BIOS		1 993
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 767
5	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 558
6	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 438
7	German (de) BIOS		1 415
8	Italian (it) BIOS		829
9	Polish (pl) BIOS		761
10	Simple English (simple) BIOS		630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BIOS		728
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		210
3	Polish (pl) BIOS		165
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		153
5	Russian (ru) BIOS		130
6	Italian (it) BIOS		125
7	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		106
8	Dutch (nl) Basic input/output system		98
9	Chinese (zh) BIOS		80
10	Czech (cs) BIOS		76

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	Vietnamese (vi) BIOS		2
2	Czech (cs) BIOS		1
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		1
4	Tamil (ta) பயாஸ்		1
5	Arabic (ar) النظام الأساسي للإدخال والإخراج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) BIOS		0
7	Belarusian (be) BIOS		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) BIOS		0
9	Catalan (ca) BIOS		0
10	Danish (da) BIOS		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information