Less (Unix)

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Less - command line tool to view text files. Article "Less (Unix)" in English Wikipedia has 25.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 9 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Less (Unix)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Less (Unix)", its content was written by 87 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 373 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #28381 in August 2004
  • Global: #28863 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #35981 in September 2014
  • Global: #65761 in September 2014

There are 21 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 August 1, 2024 (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
1Arabic (ar)
ليس (أمر يونكس)
29.3402
2Chinese (zh)
Less (Unix)
27.3924
3English (en)
Less (Unix)
25.9188
4German (de)
Less (Unix)
22.3649
5Russian (ru)
Less
22.2928
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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 "Less (Unix)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
1 243 958
2Russian (ru)
Less
115 949
3Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
90 287
4Spanish (es)
Less
69 466
5French (fr)
Less (Unix)
66 654
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Less (Unix)" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
1 425
2French (fr)
Less (Unix)
144
3German (de)
Less (Unix)
110
4Japanese (ja)
Less
105
5Russian (ru)
Less
104
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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 "Less (Unix)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
87
2German (de)
Less (Unix)
59
3French (fr)
Less (Unix)
33
4Russian (ru)
Less
28
5Japanese (ja)
Less
25
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Less (Unix)" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
ليس (أمر يونكس)
3
2Belarusian (be)
Less
1
3Danish (da)
Less
1
4English (en)
Less (Unix)
1
5Korean (ko)
Less (유닉스)
1
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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 "Less (Unix)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Less (Unix)
177
2Korean (ko)
Less (유닉스)
145
3Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
130
4Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
129
5Japanese (ja)
Less
125
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ليس (أمر يونكس)
beBelarusian
Less
csCzech
Less (Unix)
daDanish
Less
deGerman
Less (Unix)
enEnglish
Less (Unix)
esSpanish
Less
faPersian
Less
frFrench
Less (Unix)
heHebrew
Less (יוניקס)
huHungarian
Less (Unix)
itItalian
Less (Unix)
jaJapanese
Less
kaGeorgian
Less
koKorean
Less (유닉스)
plPolish
Less (Unix)
ptPortuguese
Less (Unix)
roRomanian
Less (Unix)
ruRussian
Less
ukUkrainian
Less
zhChinese
Less (Unix)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35981
09.2014
Global:
#65761
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#28381
08.2004
Global:
#28863
12.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Less from Wikipedia articles about Less, More, Terminal pager, Man page and Cat. Whereas reading the article about Less people most often go to Wikipedia articles on More, Most, Terminal pager, Pg and Cat.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ru: Less
es: Less
ja: Less
uk: Less
fa: Less
ka: Less
da: Less
be: Less

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