BIOS

Quality:

BIOS - common firmware system used to initialize hardware when a computer boots. This software is the 20^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 9^th most popular software in Catalan Wikipedia. Article “BIOS” in Catalan Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Catalan Wikipedia:

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The 7925^th most popular in Catalan Wikipedia.

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The 7587^th most editable in Catalan Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 6786^th most popular in all topics.

The 7277^th most popular in AI.

The 20^th most popular in software.

In June 2026 the article “BIOS” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “BIOS”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia (7587^th place) and edited by 3002 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7277^th place).

BIOS is on the 9^th place in local ranking of software in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 116 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 4634 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #822 in September 2015
• Global: #536 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #946 in October 2009
• Global: #1877 in September 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, 2026 (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		78.4494
2	Estonian (et) Baasvahetussüsteem		75.4505
3	German (de) BIOS		42.5774
4	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		39.0008
5	Esperanto (eo) BIOS		37.677
6	Chinese (zh) BIOS		37.6177
7	Catalan (ca) BIOS		37.4256
8	Russian (ru) BIOS		31.8793
9	Czech (cs) BIOS		29.8205
10	Spanish (es) BIOS		29.0165

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BIOS		11 258 755
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		6 079 490
3	German (de) BIOS		2 820 281
4	Russian (ru) BIOS		2 641 004
5	Polish (pl) BIOS		1 845 114
6	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 481 831
7	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		1 384 549
8	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 231 266
9	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 031 361
10	Italian (it) BIOS		1 028 796

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		14 231
2	Russian (ru) BIOS		2 056
3	German (de) BIOS		1 599
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 342
5	Spanish (es) BIOS		1 322
6	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		950
7	Chinese (zh) BIOS		895
8	Italian (it) BIOS		802
9	Polish (pl) BIOS		596
10	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		470

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BIOS		759
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		214
3	Polish (pl) BIOS		167
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		156
5	Russian (ru) BIOS		133
6	Italian (it) BIOS		125
7	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		108
8	Dutch (nl) Basic input/output system		99
9	Chinese (zh) BIOS		80
10	Czech (cs) BIOS		79

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) BIOS		7
2	Finnish (fi) BIOS		2
3	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		2
4	Arabic (ar) النظام الأساسي للإدخال والإخراج		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) BIOS		1
6	Catalan (ca) BIOS		1
7	Romanian (ro) BIOS		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) BIOS		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) BIOS		0
10	Belarusian (be) 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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information