Initial ramdisk

Initrd - temporary root file system loaded during early boot of Linux operating system. This software is the 494^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 444^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Initial ramdisk” in English Wikipedia has 32.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.57 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 “Initial ramdisk”, its content was written by 139 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 330 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Initrd is on the 444^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 494^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 368 times in English Wikipedia and cited 644 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40000 in September 2012
• Global: #58307 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #89224 in March 2015
• Global: #101202 in December 2008

There are 13 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) Initial ramdisk		32.1426
2	German (de) Initrd		24.45
3	French (fr) Initrd		17.5054
4	Ukrainian (uk) Initrd		14.8528
5	Chinese (zh) Initrd		14.8341
6	Japanese (ja) Initrd		13.5987
7	Czech (cs) Initrd		13.5142
8	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		13.139
9	Spanish (es) Initrd		9.6803
10	Russian (ru) Initrd		7.8757

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Initial ramdisk" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		1 372 598
2	Russian (ru) Initrd		120 198
3	German (de) Initrd		105 245
4	French (fr) Initrd		85 191
5	Japanese (ja) Initrd		78 821
6	Spanish (es) Initrd		74 100
7	Chinese (zh) Initrd		60 568
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		36 791
9	Italian (it) Initrd		34 537
10	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		7 438

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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 "Initial ramdisk" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		3 089
2	French (fr) Initrd		169
3	Russian (ru) Initrd		165
4	German (de) Initrd		134
5	Chinese (zh) Initrd		127
6	Japanese (ja) Initrd		87
7	Italian (it) Initrd		61
8	Spanish (es) Initrd		55
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		46
10	Polish (pl) Initrd		29

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		139
2	German (de) Initrd		35
3	Italian (it) Initrd		29
4	French (fr) Initrd		26
5	Chinese (zh) Initrd		24
6	Spanish (es) Initrd		21
7	Russian (ru) Initrd		15
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		10
10	Japanese (ja) Initrd		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 "Initial ramdisk" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Initrd		0
2	German (de) Initrd		0
3	English (en) Initial ramdisk		0
4	Spanish (es) Initrd		0
5	French (fr) Initrd		0
6	Italian (it) Initrd		0
7	Japanese (ja) Initrd		0
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		0
10	Russian (ru) Initrd		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 "Initial ramdisk" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		368
2	Japanese (ja) Initrd		93
3	Chinese (zh) Initrd		54
4	French (fr) Initrd		32
5	Russian (ru) Initrd		21
6	Ukrainian (uk) Initrd		19
7	Italian (it) Initrd		16
8	German (de) Initrd		9
9	Spanish (es) Initrd		9
10	Polish (pl) Initrd		8

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Initrd
de	German Initrd
en	English Initial ramdisk
es	Spanish Initrd
fr	French Initrd
it	Italian Initrd
ja	Japanese Initrd
pl	Polish Initrd
pt	Portuguese Initrd
ru	Russian Initrd
sv	Swedish Initrd
uk	Ukrainian Initrd
zh	Chinese Initrd

Best Rank

English: #89224 03.2015

Global: #101202 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #40000 09.2012

Global: #58307 12.2009

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