Dennis Ritchie

Quality:

Dennis M. Ritchie - American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language. This person is the 8337^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Dennis Ritchie” in Catalan Wikipedia has 63.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 44 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8337^th most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “Dennis Ritchie” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dennis Ritchie”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 1971 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Dennis M. Ritchie is on the 8337^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 105 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 4016 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #17 in October 2011
• Global: #11 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #724 in October 2011
• Global: #98 in October 2011

There are 51 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) Dennis Ritchie		73.5291
2	Catalan (ca) Dennis Ritchie		63.4961
3	Chinese (zh) 丹尼斯·里奇		62.9079
4	Portuguese (pt) Dennis Ritchie		53.2996
5	Indonesian (id) Dennis Ritchie		48.4468
6	Malay (ms) Dennis Ritchie		43.9137
7	Greek (el) Ντένις Ρίτσι		40.2854
8	Serbian (sr) Денис Ричи		39.8114
9	Spanish (es) Dennis Ritchie		38.6069
10	Slovenian (sl) Dennis Ritchie		36.3512

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dennis Ritchie		7 642 548
2	Spanish (es) Dennis Ritchie		959 321
3	Russian (ru) Ритчи, Деннис		687 469
4	German (de) Dennis Ritchie		457 317
5	French (fr) Dennis Ritchie		421 495
6	Japanese (ja) デニス・リッチー		291 842
7	Italian (it) Dennis Ritchie		284 359
8	Portuguese (pt) Dennis Ritchie		253 167
9	Chinese (zh) 丹尼斯·里奇		198 388
10	Polish (pl) Dennis Ritchie		182 622

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) Dennis Ritchie		14 561
2	Russian (ru) Ритчи, Деннис		1 123
3	Spanish (es) Dennis Ritchie		1 059
4	German (de) Dennis Ritchie		964
5	Japanese (ja) デニス・リッチー		662
6	French (fr) Dennis Ritchie		582
7	Chinese (zh) 丹尼斯·里奇		567
8	Portuguese (pt) Dennis Ritchie		398
9	Italian (it) Dennis Ritchie		343
10	Polish (pl) Dennis Ritchie		293

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dennis Ritchie		485
2	French (fr) Dennis Ritchie		126
3	German (de) Dennis Ritchie		121
4	Italian (it) Dennis Ritchie		102
5	Russian (ru) Ритчи, Деннис		84
6	Spanish (es) Dennis Ritchie		72
7	Japanese (ja) デニス・リッチー		61
8	Chinese (zh) 丹尼斯·里奇		58
9	Dutch (nl) Dennis Ritchie		57
10	Hungarian (hu) Dennis M. Ritchie		45

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) Dennis Ritchie		3
2	Arabic (ar) دينيس ريتشي		1
3	Catalan (ca) Dennis Ritchie		1
4	Basque (eu) Dennis Ritchie		1
5	Hebrew (he) דניס ריצ'י		1
6	Turkish (tr) Dennis Ritchie		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dennis Ritçi		0
8	Belarusian (be) Дэніс Рычы		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Денис Ричи		0
10	Czech (cs) Dennis Ritchie		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