File descriptor

File descriptor - abstract indicator (handle) used to access a file or other input/output resource. Article "File descriptor" in English Wikipedia has 36.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "File descriptor", its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 315 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 241 times in English Wikipedia and cited 669 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18185 in April 2004
• Global: #42517 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51310 in April 2015
• Global: #27167 in May 2017

There are 21 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	Vietnamese (vi) File descriptor		37.1762
2	English (en) File descriptor		36.1487
3	Chinese (zh) 文件描述符		27.7758
4	Persian (fa) توصیف‌گر پرونده		26.4133
5	Arabic (ar) واصف الملف		21.9005
6	Turkish (tr) Dosya tanımlayıcı		21.5309
7	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		20.4389
8	Catalan (ca) Descriptor de fitxer		18.8995
9	Korean (ko) 파일 서술자		17.6928
10	Ukrainian (uk) Файловий дескриптор		17.1671

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

The most popular language versions of the article "File descriptor" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) File descriptor		2 706 333
2	French (fr) Descripteur de fichier		364 220
3	Russian (ru) Файловый дескриптор		325 535
4	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		174 179
5	Chinese (zh) 文件描述符		131 246
6	Polish (pl) Deskryptor pliku		104 379
7	Spanish (es) Descriptor de archivo		103 927
8	Italian (it) Descrittore di file		48 605
9	Portuguese (pt) Descritor de arquivo		35 470
10	Korean (ko) 파일 서술자		27 199

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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 "File descriptor" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) File descriptor		5 421
2	Russian (ru) Файловый дескриптор		494
3	Chinese (zh) 文件描述符		321
4	French (fr) Descripteur de fichier		223
5	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		217
6	Italian (it) Descrittore di file		97
7	Polish (pl) Deskryptor pliku		63
8	Spanish (es) Descriptor de archivo		61
9	Portuguese (pt) Descritor de arquivo		39
10	Korean (ko) 파일 서술자		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) File descriptor		109
2	Russian (ru) Файловый дескриптор		35
3	French (fr) Descripteur de fichier		34
4	Polish (pl) Deskryptor pliku		19
5	Italian (it) Descrittore di file		15
6	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		15
7	Vietnamese (vi) File descriptor		15
8	Galician (gl) Descritor de ficheiro		14
9	Chinese (zh) 文件描述符		14
10	Czech (cs) Deskriptor souboru		7

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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 "File descriptor" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) واصف الملف		0
2	Catalan (ca) Descriptor de fitxer		0
3	Czech (cs) Deskriptor souboru		0
4	English (en) File descriptor		0
5	Spanish (es) Descriptor de archivo		0
6	Persian (fa) توصیف‌گر پرونده		0
7	French (fr) Descripteur de fichier		0
8	Galician (gl) Descritor de ficheiro		0
9	Italian (it) Descrittore di file		0
10	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		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 "File descriptor" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) File descriptor		241
2	Japanese (ja) ファイル記述子		79
3	Korean (ko) 파일 서술자		56
4	Chinese (zh) 文件描述符		39
5	Russian (ru) Файловый дескриптор		36
6	French (fr) Descripteur de fichier		30
7	Arabic (ar) واصف الملف		25
8	Persian (fa) توصیف‌گر پرونده		25
9	Spanish (es) Descriptor de archivo		23
10	Czech (cs) Deskriptor souboru		22

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic واصف الملف
ca	Catalan Descriptor de fitxer
cs	Czech Deskriptor souboru
en	English File descriptor
es	Spanish Descriptor de archivo
fa	Persian توصیف‌گر پرونده
fr	French Descripteur de fichier
gl	Galician Descritor de ficheiro
it	Italian Descrittore di file
ja	Japanese ファイル記述子
ko	Korean 파일 서술자
pl	Polish Deskryptor pliku
pt	Portuguese Descritor de arquivo
ru	Russian Файловый дескриптор
sk	Slovak Deskriptor (výpočtová technika)
sv	Swedish Fildeskriptor
tr	Turkish Dosya tanımlayıcı
uk	Ukrainian Файловий дескриптор
uz	Uzbek Fayl deskriptori
vi	Vietnamese File descriptor
zh	Chinese 文件描述符

Best Rank

English: #51310 04.2015

Global: #27167 05.2017

Best Rank

English: #18185 04.2004

Global: #42517 11.2012

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