Kernel (operating system)

Quality:

Kernel - core of a computer operating system. Article “Kernel (operating system)” in English Wikipedia has 76.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 87 references and 33 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8341^st most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Kernel (operating system)” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kernel (operating system)”, its content was written by 624 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2809 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8341^st place).

The article is cited 1564 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15128 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2111 in August 2003
• Global: #211 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8897 in October 2014
• Global: #5945 in September 2008

There are 49 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	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		77.0759
2	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		76.6033
3	Finnish (fi) Käyttöjärjestelmän ydin		73.2298
4	Japanese (ja) カーネル		52.0138
5	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		43.1606
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ядро операційної системи		37.0079
7	Chinese (zh) 内核		33.2026
8	Hebrew (he) גרעין (מערכות הפעלה)		30.6961
9	Turkish (tr) Çekirdek (bilgisayar bilimi)		30.6827
10	Italian (it) Kernel		29.7559

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		7 732 303
2	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		2 624 140
3	Japanese (ja) カーネル		1 602 476
4	Italian (it) Kernel		1 458 977
5	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		1 190 265
6	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		1 179 365
7	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		1 146 314
8	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		947 371
9	Polish (pl) Jądro systemu operacyjnego		564 846
10	Simple English (simple) Kernel (computer science)		497 441

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		18 777
2	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		1 862
3	Japanese (ja) カーネル		1 657
4	Italian (it) Kernel		1 328
5	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		1 323
6	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		1 173
7	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		1 098
8	Chinese (zh) 内核		581
9	Polish (pl) Jądro systemu operacyjnego		552
10	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		490

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		624
2	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		215
3	Italian (it) Kernel		187
4	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		175
5	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		115
6	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		103
7	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		87
8	Dutch (nl) Kernel		82
9	Japanese (ja) カーネル		81
10	Hebrew (he) גרעין (מערכות הפעלה)		79

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		6
2	Ukrainian (uk) Ядро операційної системи		1
3	Arabic (ar) نواة (نظم تشغيل)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Nüvə (kompüter)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Ядро аперацыйнай сістэмы		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ядро (операционна система)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Nucli del sistema operatiu		0
8	Czech (cs) Jádro operačního systému		0
9	Danish (da) Kerne (styresystem)		0
10	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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