Binary blob

Proprietary device driver - closed-source device driver published only in binary code. Article "Binary blob" in English Wikipedia has 47.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 45 references and 8 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Binary blob", its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 322 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 344 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1099 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37335 in August 2006
• Global: #43647 in August 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6617 in August 2008
• Global: #14114 in August 2008

There are 17 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	Chinese (zh) 專有設備驅動程序		57.2031
2	English (en) Binary blob		47.1849
3	German (de) Binärblob		43.5401
4	Arabic (ar) تعريف جهاز محتكر		36.5095
5	Catalan (ca) Blob binari		28.27
6	Esperanto (eo) Duuma malliberumo		24.5371
7	Indonesian (id) Blob biner		24.0782
8	Norwegian (no) Binary blob		22.141
9	Korean (ko) 바이너리 블롭		21.5188
10	Persian (fa) لکه دودویی		21.3306

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Binary blob" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binary blob		270 737
2	Russian (ru) Блоб		119 133
3	Spanish (es) Blob binario		42 201
4	Japanese (ja) バイナリ・ブロブ		36 013
5	Portuguese (pt) Binary blob		24 854
6	German (de) Binärblob		22 262
7	Ukrainian (uk) Блоб		12 009
8	Polish (pl) Blob binarny		11 728
9	Persian (fa) لکه دودویی		9 078
10	Italian (it) Blob binario		8 718

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Binary blob" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binary blob		2 880
2	Russian (ru) Блоб		251
3	German (de) Binärblob		140
4	Chinese (zh) 專有設備驅動程序		84
5	Japanese (ja) バイナリ・ブロブ		72
6	Portuguese (pt) Binary blob		52
7	Spanish (es) Blob binario		50
8	Italian (it) Blob binario		45
9	Polish (pl) Blob binarny		20
10	Ukrainian (uk) Блоб		20

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

Language versions of the article "Binary blob" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Binary blob		109
2	German (de) Binärblob		85
3	Russian (ru) Блоб		32
4	Spanish (es) Blob binario		17
5	Portuguese (pt) Binary blob		15
6	Italian (it) Blob binario		14
7	Japanese (ja) バイナリ・ブロブ		10
8	Persian (fa) لکه دودویی		9
9	Ukrainian (uk) Блоб		9
10	Polish (pl) Blob binarny		5

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

Language versions of the article "Binary blob" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تعريف جهاز محتكر		3
2	German (de) Binärblob		2
3	Catalan (ca) Blob binari		0
4	English (en) Binary blob		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Duuma malliberumo		0
6	Spanish (es) Blob binario		0
7	Persian (fa) لکه دودویی		0
8	Indonesian (id) Blob biner		0
9	Italian (it) Blob binario		0
10	Japanese (ja) バイナリ・ブロブ		0

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

Language versions of the article "Binary blob" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Binary blob		344
2	Ukrainian (uk) Блоб		135
3	Italian (it) Blob binario		112
4	Russian (ru) Блоб		111
5	Chinese (zh) 專有設備驅動程序		108
6	Portuguese (pt) Binary blob		104
7	Persian (fa) لکه دودویی		102
8	German (de) Binärblob		22
9	Spanish (es) Blob binario		18
10	Japanese (ja) バイナリ・ブロブ		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تعريف جهاز محتكر
ca	Catalan Blob binari
de	German Binärblob
en	English Binary blob
eo	Esperanto Duuma malliberumo
es	Spanish Blob binario
fa	Persian لکه دودویی
id	Indonesian Blob biner
it	Italian Blob binario
ja	Japanese バイナリ・ブロブ
ko	Korean 바이너리 블롭
no	Norwegian Binary blob
pl	Polish Blob binarny
pt	Portuguese Binary blob
ru	Russian Блоб
uk	Ukrainian Блоб
zh	Chinese 專有設備驅動程序

Best Rank

English: #6617 08.2008

Global: #14114 08.2008

Best Rank

English: #37335 08.2006

Global: #43647 08.2006

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