HAL (software)

HAL - software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction. Article "HAL (software)" in English Wikipedia has 28.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 7 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 "HAL (software)", its content was written by 82 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 175 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in English Wikipedia and cited 165 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #68555 in July 2008
• Global: #62875 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134133 in December 2008
• Global: #151465 in April 2010

There are 11 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) HAL (software)		28.7918
2	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		25.9315
3	German (de) HAL (Software)		24.565
4	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		23.7622
5	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		22.2153
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		10.3428
7	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		8.8487
8	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		8.6365
9	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		8.243
10	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		2.8926

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

The most popular language versions of the article "HAL (software)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HAL (software)		633 568
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		125 764
3	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		81 546
4	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		71 832
5	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		64 788
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		26 690
7	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		5 454
8	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		3 654
9	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		1 184
10	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		983

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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 "HAL (software)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HAL (software)		1 083
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		323
3	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		86
4	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		64
5	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		64
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		41
7	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		23
8	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		16
9	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		13
10	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HAL (software)		82
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		24
3	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		16
4	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		16
5	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		12
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		9
7	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		6
8	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		4
9	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		3
10	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		2

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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 "HAL (software)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		1
2	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		0
3	German (de) HAL (Software)		0
4	English (en) HAL (software)		0
5	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		0
6	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		0
7	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		0
8	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		0
9	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		0
10	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		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 "HAL (software)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		40
2	English (en) HAL (software)		33
3	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		30
4	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		13
5	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		11
6	German (de) HAL (Software)		10
7	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		10
8	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		6
9	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		6
10	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		3

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech HAL (software)
de	German HAL (Software)
en	English HAL (software)
es	Spanish HAL (software)
ja	Japanese HAL (ソフトウェア)
ko	Korean HAL (소프트웨어)
nl	Dutch HAL (software)
no	Norwegian Hardware Abstraction Layer
pt	Portuguese HAL (software)
ru	Russian HAL (freedesktop.org)
uk	Ukrainian HAL (freedesktop.org)

Best Rank

English: #134133 12.2008

Global: #151465 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #68555 07.2008

Global: #62875 07.2008

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