Daemon (computing)

Daemon - computer program that runs persistently as a background process to provide a service. Article "Daemon (computing)" in English Wikipedia has 36.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 9 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Daemon (computing)", its content was written by 314 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 536 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2152 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11443 in April 2005
• Global: #1792 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #186 in September 2014
• Global: #1013 in September 2014

There are 36 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) Daemon (computing)		36.1385
2	German (de) Daemon		30.8239
3	Finnish (fi) Daemon		30.6482
4	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		26.4709
5	Romanian (ro) Daemon		24.283
6	Arabic (ar) برنامج خفي		23.8597
7	Serbian (sr) Daemon		23.117
8	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		22.9369
9	Portuguese (pt) Daemon (computação)		18.0209
10	Thai (th) ไดมอน (ซอฟต์แวร์)		17.6152

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Daemon (computing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		7 431 023
2	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		636 809
3	German (de) Daemon		627 737
4	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		577 307
5	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		569 246
6	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		315 714
7	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		197 833
8	Portuguese (pt) Daemon (computação)		175 196
9	Polish (pl) Demon (informatyka)		166 308
10	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		140 034

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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 "Daemon (computing)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		18 326
2	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		1 607
3	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		1 270
4	German (de) Daemon		957
5	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		801
6	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		679
7	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		646
8	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		388
9	Simple English (simple) Daemon (computer software)		371
10	Korean (ko) 데몬 (컴퓨팅)		295

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		314
2	German (de) Daemon		131
3	Simple English (simple) Daemon (computer software)		94
4	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		91
5	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		60
6	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		59
7	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		49
8	Dutch (nl) Daemon (Unix)		37
9	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		28
10	Czech (cs) Démon (software)		26

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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 "Daemon (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Daemon		2
2	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		1
3	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		1
4	Swedish (sv) Daemon		1
5	Arabic (ar) برنامج خفي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Gözlədici proqram		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Демон (информатика)		0
8	Catalan (ca) Dimoni (programa)		0
9	Czech (cs) Démon (software)		0
10	Danish (da) Daemon		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 "Daemon (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		536
2	German (de) Daemon		184
3	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		154
4	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		140
5	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		136
6	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		121
7	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		106
8	Korean (ko) 데몬 (컴퓨팅)		97
9	Czech (cs) Démon (software)		94
10	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		94

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic برنامج خفي
az	Azerbaijani Gözlədici proqram
bg	Bulgarian Демон (информатика)
ca	Catalan Dimoni (programa)
cs	Czech Démon (software)
da	Danish Daemon
de	German Daemon
el	Greek Δαίμων (πληροφορική)
en	English Daemon (computing)
es	Spanish Daemon (informática)
eu	Basque Daemon (informatika)
fa	Persian دیمن
fi	Finnish Daemon
fr	French Daemon (informatique)
he	Hebrew Daemon
hr	Croatian Daemon
hy	Armenian Դեմոն (ծրագիր)
id	Indonesian Daemon
it	Italian Demone (informatica)
ja	Japanese デーモン (ソフトウェア)
ko	Korean 데몬 (컴퓨팅)
la	Latin Daemon (informatica)
lt	Lithuanian Daemon
nl	Dutch Daemon (Unix)
no	Norwegian Daemon (programvare)
pl	Polish Demon (informatyka)
pt	Portuguese Daemon (computação)
ro	Romanian Daemon
ru	Russian Демон (программа)
simple	Simple English Daemon (computer software)
sr	Serbian Daemon
sv	Swedish Daemon
th	Thai ไดมอน (ซอฟต์แวร์)
uk	Ukrainian Демон (програма)
vi	Vietnamese Trình nền
zh	Chinese 守护进程

Best Rank

English: #186 09.2014

Global: #1013 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #11443 04.2005

Global: #1792 07.2003

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