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 40^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “BIOS” in English Wikipedia has 78.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 108 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.72 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 40^th most popular in software in English 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 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “BIOS”, its content was written by 759 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3002 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7277^th place).

BIOS is on the 40^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 20^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 715 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4634 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #380 in October 2001
• Global: #536 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4738 in September 2008
• 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.

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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