Fish (Unix shell)

Fish - user-friendly interactive Unix shell. This software is the 1263^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 257^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Fish (Unix shell)” in English Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.16 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.

Since the creation of article “Fish (Unix shell)”, its content was written by 118 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 274 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Fish is on the 1263^rd place in global ranking of software on Wikipedia in all the time.

Fish is on the 257^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 264^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 40 times in English Wikipedia and cited 249 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #52428 in October 2020
• Global: #53257 in March 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #255903 in September 2014
• Global: #365861 in June 2019

There are 14 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) Fish (Unix shell)		28.6241
2	Russian (ru) Friendly interactive shell		28.4533
3	German (de) Fish (Shell)		28.1291
4	Korean (ko) 피시 (유닉스 셸)		25.3624
5	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		24.6609
6	Chinese (zh) Fish		24.3469
7	Portuguese (pt) Fish (Shell do Unix)		21.9848
8	Finnish (fi) Fish (komentotulkki)		20.7284
9	Ukrainian (uk) Friendly interactive shell		19.0064
10	Spanish (es) Friendly interactive shell		16.1923

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fish (Unix shell)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fish (Unix shell)		437 384
2	Chinese (zh) Fish		52 495
3	Japanese (ja) Fish (シェル)		33 614
4	Russian (ru) Friendly interactive shell		25 333
5	German (de) Fish (Shell)		21 618
6	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		20 443
7	Spanish (es) Friendly interactive shell		6 814
8	Hungarian (hu) Friendly interactive shell		5 437
9	Polish (pl) Friendly interactive shell		5 060
10	Ukrainian (uk) Friendly interactive shell		2 251

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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 "Fish (Unix shell)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fish (Unix shell)		2 431
2	German (de) Fish (Shell)		209
3	Chinese (zh) Fish		179
4	Russian (ru) Friendly interactive shell		116
5	Czech (cs) Fish (shell)		105
6	Japanese (ja) Fish (シェル)		74
7	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		61
8	Polish (pl) Friendly interactive shell		38
9	Spanish (es) Friendly interactive shell		32
10	Portuguese (pt) Fish (Shell do Unix)		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fish (Unix shell)		118
2	Japanese (ja) Fish (シェル)		32
3	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		31
4	Chinese (zh) Fish		23
5	German (de) Fish (Shell)		17
6	Hungarian (hu) Friendly interactive shell		11
7	Spanish (es) Friendly interactive shell		8
8	Russian (ru) Friendly interactive shell		8
9	Polish (pl) Friendly interactive shell		7
10	Portuguese (pt) Fish (Shell do Unix)		6

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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 "Fish (Unix shell)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fish (Shell)		1
2	Czech (cs) Fish (shell)		0
3	English (en) Fish (Unix shell)		0
4	Spanish (es) Friendly interactive shell		0
5	Finnish (fi) Fish (komentotulkki)		0
6	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Friendly interactive shell		0
8	Japanese (ja) Fish (シェル)		0
9	Korean (ko) 피시 (유닉스 셸)		0
10	Polish (pl) Friendly interactive shell		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 "Fish (Unix shell)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Friendly interactive shell		83
2	Ukrainian (uk) Friendly interactive shell		44
3	English (en) Fish (Unix shell)		40
4	Chinese (zh) Fish		18
5	Japanese (ja) Fish (シェル)		16
6	French (fr) Friendly Interactive Shell		14
7	Korean (ko) 피시 (유닉스 셸)		12
8	Portuguese (pt) Fish (Shell do Unix)		6
9	Polish (pl) Friendly interactive shell		4
10	Czech (cs) Fish (shell)		3

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Fish (shell)
de	German Fish (Shell)
en	English Fish (Unix shell)
es	Spanish Friendly interactive shell
fi	Finnish Fish (komentotulkki)
fr	French Friendly Interactive Shell
hu	Hungarian Friendly interactive shell
ja	Japanese Fish (シェル)
ko	Korean 피시 (유닉스 셸)
pl	Polish Friendly interactive shell
pt	Portuguese Fish (Shell do Unix)
ru	Russian Friendly interactive shell
uk	Ukrainian Friendly interactive shell
zh	Chinese Fish

Best Rank

English: #255903 09.2014

Global: #365861 06.2019

Best Rank

English: #52428 10.2020

Global: #53257 03.2025

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