Bourne shell

Quality:

Bourne shell - command line interpreter for operating systems. This software is the 365^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 207^th most popular software in Catalan Wikipedia and the 71^st most popular programming language in Catalan Wikipedia. Article “Bourne shell” in Catalan Wikipedia has 2.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.15 points.

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:

The 207^th most popular in software in Catalan Wikipedia.

The 71^st most popular in programming languages in Catalan Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 365^th most popular in software.

The 103^rd most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Bourne shell”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 553 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bourne shell is on the 207^th place in local ranking of software in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 365^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Bourne shell is on the 71^st place in local ranking of programming languages in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 103^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 1370 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #5739 in November 2017
• Global: #3086 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #5400 in March 2023
• Global: #70384 in July 2009

There are 26 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) Bourne shell		43.2051
2	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		34.5946
3	Finnish (fi) Bourne shell		28.9974
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bourne Shell		27.731
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		18.1768
6	Italian (it) Bourne shell		16.2657
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		15.0798
8	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		12.7359
9	French (fr) Bourne shell		10.7901
10	Korean (ko) 본 셸		10.0679

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		1 809 774
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		220 098
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		218 358
4	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		135 171
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		113 839
6	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		51 347
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		41 525
8	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		29 191
9	Korean (ko) 본 셸		26 406
10	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		23 428

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) Bourne shell		4 508
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		424
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		340
4	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		210
5	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		202
6	French (fr) Bourne shell		183
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		158
8	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		94
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		57
10	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bourne shell		166
2	French (fr) Bourne shell		42
3	Italian (it) Bourne shell		39
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		36
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		32
6	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		28
7	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		27
8	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		25
9	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		21
10	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		20

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	Azerbaijani (az) Bourne shell		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Bourne shell		0
3	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		0
4	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		0
5	Danish (da) Bourne shell		0
6	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		0
7	English (en) Bourne shell		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		0
9	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		0
10	Persian (fa) Bourne shell		0

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

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