Fork (system call)

Fork - in computing, an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself, usually through a system call implemented in the kernel. Article "Fork (system call)" in English Wikipedia has 38.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 11 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.

In June 2025 the article "Fork (system call)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Fork (system call)", its content was written by 160 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 84 times in English Wikipedia and cited 364 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16563 in January 2004
• Global: #35736 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51671 in September 2014
• Global: #66561 in October 2014

There are 19 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) Fork (系统调用)		43.3398
2	English (en) Fork (system call)		38.515
3	Ukrainian (uk) Fork (системний виклик)		22.1464
4	Japanese (ja) Fork		19.0428
5	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		18.6278
6	Korean (ko) 포크 (시스템 호출)		18.3858
7	Polish (pl) Fork (Unix)		13.1184
8	Norwegian (no) Fork (Unix)		11.4105
9	German (de) Fork (Unix)		9.9824
10	Catalan (ca) Fork (Unix)		8.5001

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fork (system call)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (system call)		1 786 950
2	Japanese (ja) Fork		321 137
3	Russian (ru) Fork		238 221
4	German (de) Fork (Unix)		207 480
5	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (sistema operativo)		122 738
6	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		105 418
7	Italian (it) Fork (programmazione)		101 824
8	Chinese (zh) Fork (系统调用)		63 490
9	Czech (cs) Fork (systémové volání)		20 108
10	Korean (ko) 포크 (시스템 호출)		19 783

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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 "Fork (system call)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (system call)		2 737
2	Russian (ru) Fork		289
3	Japanese (ja) Fork		198
4	Chinese (zh) Fork (系统调用)		136
5	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		108
6	German (de) Fork (Unix)		101
7	Italian (it) Fork (programmazione)		82
8	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (sistema operativo)		61
9	Korean (ko) 포크 (시스템 호출)		39
10	Polish (pl) Fork (Unix)		30

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork (system call)		160
2	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		77
3	German (de) Fork (Unix)		37
4	Italian (it) Fork (programmazione)		36
5	Russian (ru) Fork		27
6	Japanese (ja) Fork		17
7	Norwegian (no) Fork (Unix)		10
8	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (sistema operativo)		8
9	Dutch (nl) Fork (informatica)		8
10	Czech (cs) Fork (systémové volání)		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 "Fork (system call)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Fork (Unix)		1
2	English (en) Fork (system call)		1
3	Japanese (ja) Fork		1
4	Catalan (ca) Fork (Unix)		0
5	Czech (cs) Fork (systémové volání)		0
6	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (sistema operativo)		0
7	Basque (eu) Adarkatze (sistema eragileak)		0
8	Persian (fa) Fork (فراخوان سیستمی)		0
9	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		0
10	Italian (it) Fork (programmazione)		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 "Fork (system call)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fork (system call)		84
2	Italian (it) Fork (programmazione)		34
3	Japanese (ja) Fork		28
4	French (fr) Fork (programmation)		27
5	German (de) Fork (Unix)		25
6	Czech (cs) Fork (systémové volání)		22
7	Russian (ru) Fork		22
8	Ukrainian (uk) Fork (системний виклик)		20
9	Persian (fa) Fork (فراخوان سیستمی)		16
10	Chinese (zh) Fork (系统调用)		16

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Fork (Unix)
cs	Czech Fork (systémové volání)
de	German Fork (Unix)
en	English Fork (system call)
es	Spanish Bifurcación (sistema operativo)
eu	Basque Adarkatze (sistema eragileak)
fa	Persian Fork (فراخوان سیستمی)
fr	French Fork (programmation)
it	Italian Fork (programmazione)
ja	Japanese Fork
ko	Korean 포크 (시스템 호출)
nl	Dutch Fork (informatica)
no	Norwegian Fork (Unix)
pl	Polish Fork (Unix)
ru	Russian Fork
sv	Swedish Fork (systemanrop)
uk	Ukrainian Fork (системний виклик)
vi	Vietnamese Fork (lời gọi hệ thống)
zh	Chinese Fork (系统调用)

Best Rank

English: #51671 09.2014

Global: #66561 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #16563 01.2004

Global: #35736 01.2004

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