Giant lock

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Giant lock

Quality:

Giant lock - lock used in the kernel to provide concurrency control required by symmetric multiprocessing systems. Article “Giant lock” in English Wikipedia has 29.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 4 sections.

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 “Giant lock”, its content was written by 32 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 90 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in English Wikipedia and cited 65 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #218854 in May 2008
  • Global: #142978 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #238489 in January 2011
  • Global: #353356 in January 2011

There are 7 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Giant lock
29.7924
2German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
29.2892
3Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
24.8011
4French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
13.2014
5Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
1.2793
6Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
0.962
7Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
0.2106
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Giant lock" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Giant lock
130 447
2French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
18 946
3Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
18 235
4German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
13 562
5Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
1 982
6Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
403
7Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
207
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Giant lock" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Giant lock
571
2Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
57
3German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
48
4French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
28
5Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
8
6Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
7
7Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Giant lock" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Giant lock
32
2German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
27
3French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
20
4Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
4
5Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
3
6Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
2
7Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Giant lock" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
0
2German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
0
3English (en)
Giant lock
0
4Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
0
5French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
0
6Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
0
7Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Giant lock" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Verrou global du noyau
39
2English (en)
Giant lock
10
3Persian (fa)
قفل بزرگ
6
4Japanese (ja)
ジャイアントロック
3
5Norwegian (no)
Stor kjernelås
3
6Czech (cs)
Globální zámek jádra
2
7German (de)
Big Kernel Lock
2
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Globální zámek jádra
deGerman
Big Kernel Lock
enEnglish
Giant lock
faPersian
قفل بزرگ
frFrench
Verrou global du noyau
jaJapanese
ジャイアントロック
noNorwegian
Stor kjernelås

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#238489
01.2011
Global:
#353356
01.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#218854
05.2008
Global:
#142978
02.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Giant lock from Wikipedia articles about Global interpreter lock, ReiserFS, NetBSD, FreeBSD version history and Asymmetric multiprocessing. Whereas reading the article about Giant lock people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Lock, Set priority level, Global interpreter lock, Matthew Dillon and DragonFly BSD.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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