Ken Thompson

Quality:

14

Ken Thompson - American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system. Article "Ken Thompson" in Czech Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 0 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Ken Thompson", its content was written by 29 registered users of Czech Wikipedia and edited by 1318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 3668 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Czech): #253 in July 2014
• Global: #1434 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Czech): #5880 in April 2011
• Global: #12562 in October 2011

There are 47 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Ken Thompson		65.6181
2	Greek (el) Κεν Τόμσον		51.7441
3	Chinese (zh) 肯·汤普逊		48.9857
4	Turkish (tr) Ken Thompson		48.2026
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кен Томпсон		34.7015
6	Georgian (ka) კენ ტომფსონი		33.939
7	Hebrew (he) קן תומפסון		30.9368
8	Japanese (ja) ケン・トンプソン		30.4183
9	Swedish (sv) Ken Thompson		29.7018
10	Malay (ms) Ken Thompson		27.7107

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ken Thompson		3 616 090
2	Spanish (es) Ken Thompson		472 132
3	Russian (ru) Томпсон, Кен		283 089
4	German (de) Ken Thompson		269 902
5	French (fr) Ken Thompson		220 838
6	Japanese (ja) ケン・トンプソン		172 277
7	Chinese (zh) 肯·汤普逊		133 547
8	Portuguese (pt) Ken Thompson		132 107
9	Italian (it) Ken Thompson		113 806
10	Polish (pl) Ken Thompson		96 582

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) Ken Thompson		15 457
2	Russian (ru) Томпсон, Кен		1 323
3	German (de) Ken Thompson		845
4	Japanese (ja) ケン・トンプソン		669
5	Spanish (es) Ken Thompson		659
6	Chinese (zh) 肯·汤普逊		578
7	French (fr) Ken Thompson		483
8	Portuguese (pt) Ken Thompson		366
9	Simple English (simple) Ken Thompson		334
10	Italian (it) Ken Thompson		253

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ken Thompson		269
2	German (de) Ken Thompson		109
3	French (fr) Ken Thompson		100
4	Italian (it) Ken Thompson		56
5	Russian (ru) Томпсон, Кен		55
6	Japanese (ja) ケン・トンプソン		48
7	Polish (pl) Ken Thompson		45
8	Spanish (es) Ken Thompson		43
9	Hungarian (hu) Kenneth Lane Thompson		40
10	Danish (da) Kenneth Thompson		37

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	Arabic (ar) كين تومسن		1
2	English (en) Ken Thompson		1
3	Spanish (es) Ken Thompson		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Кен Томпсон		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Ken Tompson		0
6	Belarusian (be) Кен Томпсан		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Кен Томпсън		0
8	Catalan (ca) Ken Thompson		0
9	Czech (cs) Ken Thompson		0
10	Danish (da) Kenneth Thompson		0

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

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