Linus Torvalds

Quality:

Linus Torvalds - Finnish-American software engineer. This person is the 3665th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article "Linus Torvalds" in English Wikipedia has 77.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 91 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 5696th most editable in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 3488th most popular in AI.
The 3665th most popular in people.

In July 2024 the article "Linus Torvalds" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Linus Torvalds", its content was written by 1027 registered users of English Wikipedia (5696th place) and edited by 4081 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3488th place).

Linus Torvalds is on the 3665th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 505 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3807 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #246 in June 2003
  • Global: #70 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #4266 in August 2010
  • Global: #5593 in September 2010

There are 54 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
1Finnish (fi)
Linus Torvalds
88.3818
2English (en)
Linus Torvalds
77.1564
3German (de)
Linus Torvalds
71.071
4Catalan (ca)
Linus Torvalds
67.6104
5Greek (el)
Λίνους Τόρβαλντς
51.9946
6French (fr)
Linus Torvalds
43.2818
7Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
42.7106
8Basque (eu)
Linus Torvalds
41.5718
9Tamil (ta)
லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு
41.3042
10Spanish (es)
Linus Torvalds
40.7128
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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 "Linus Torvalds" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Linus Torvalds
10 522 030
2Spanish (es)
Linus Torvalds
1 789 288
3Russian (ru)
Торвальдс, Линус
1 424 363
4German (de)
Linus Torvalds
1 154 729
5French (fr)
Linus Torvalds
827 081
6Portuguese (pt)
Linus Torvalds
666 797
7Japanese (ja)
リーナス・トーバルズ
630 363
8Italian (it)
Linus Torvalds
507 624
9Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
482 752
10Finnish (fi)
Linus Torvalds
464 211
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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 "Linus Torvalds" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Linus Torvalds
51 181
2Russian (ru)
Торвальдс, Линус
6 246
3German (de)
Linus Torvalds
4 551
4Spanish (es)
Linus Torvalds
4 318
5Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
3 360
6French (fr)
Linus Torvalds
2 993
7Japanese (ja)
リーナス・トーバルズ
2 937
8Portuguese (pt)
Linus Torvalds
1 828
9Italian (it)
Linus Torvalds
1 386
10Finnish (fi)
Linus Torvalds
1 341
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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 "Linus Torvalds" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Linus Torvalds
1 027
2German (de)
Linus Torvalds
299
3French (fr)
Linus Torvalds
231
4Russian (ru)
Торвальдс, Линус
209
5Spanish (es)
Linus Torvalds
201
6Italian (it)
Linus Torvalds
161
7Finnish (fi)
Linus Torvalds
138
8Portuguese (pt)
Linus Torvalds
127
9Dutch (nl)
Linus Torvalds
105
10Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
104
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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 "Linus Torvalds" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Finnish (fi)
Linus Torvalds
4
2Tamil (ta)
லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு
4
3German (de)
Linus Torvalds
2
4English (en)
Linus Torvalds
2
5Russian (ru)
Торвальдс, Линус
2
6Japanese (ja)
リーナス・トーバルズ
1
7Serbian (sr)
Линус Торвалдс
1
8Swedish (sv)
Linus Torvalds
1
9Ukrainian (uk)
Лінус Торвальдс
1
10Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
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 "Linus Torvalds" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Linus Torvalds
505
2French (fr)
Linus Torvalds
286
3Portuguese (pt)
Linus Torvalds
269
4Chinese (zh)
林纳斯·托瓦兹
240
5Russian (ru)
Торвальдс, Линус
210
6Japanese (ja)
リーナス・トーバルズ
192
7Ukrainian (uk)
Лінус Торвальдс
171
8Arabic (ar)
لينوس تورفالدس
150
9Persian (fa)
لینوس توروالدز
144
10Turkish (tr)
Linus Torvalds
121
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لينوس تورفالدس
azAzerbaijani
Linus Torvalds
beBelarusian
Лінус Торвальдс
bgBulgarian
Линус Торвалдс
caCatalan
Linus Torvalds
csCzech
Linus Torvalds
daDanish
Linus Torvalds
deGerman
Linus Torvalds
elGreek
Λίνους Τόρβαλντς
enEnglish
Linus Torvalds
eoEsperanto
Linus Torvalds
esSpanish
Linus Torvalds
etEstonian
Linus Torvalds
euBasque
Linus Torvalds
faPersian
لینوس توروالدز
fiFinnish
Linus Torvalds
frFrench
Linus Torvalds
glGalician
Linus Torvalds
heHebrew
לינוס טורבאלדס
hiHindi
लीनस तोरवाल्ड्स
hrCroatian
Linus Torvalds
huHungarian
Linus Torvalds
hyArmenian
Լինուս Տորվալդս
idIndonesian
Linus Torvalds
itItalian
Linus Torvalds
jaJapanese
リーナス・トーバルズ
kaGeorgian
ლინუს ტორვალდსი
kkKazakh
Линус Торвалдс
koKorean
리누스 토르발스
laLatin
Linus Torvalds
ltLithuanian
Linus Torvalds
msMalay
Linus Torvalds
nlDutch
Linus Torvalds
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Linus Torvalds
noNorwegian
Linus Torvalds
plPolish
Linus Torvalds
ptPortuguese
Linus Torvalds
roRomanian
Linus Torvalds
ruRussian
Торвальдс, Линус
shSerbo-Croatian
Linus Torvalds
simpleSimple English
Linus Torvalds
skSlovak
Linus Torvalds
slSlovenian
Linus Torvalds
srSerbian
Линус Торвалдс
svSwedish
Linus Torvalds
taTamil
லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு
thThai
ลีนึส ตูร์วัลดส์
trTurkish
Linus Torvalds
ukUkrainian
Лінус Торвальдс
urUrdu
لینس ٹورویلڈز
uzUzbek
Linus Torvalds
viVietnamese
Linus Torvalds
zhChinese
林纳斯·托瓦兹
zhminnanMin Nan
Linus Torvalds

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4266
08.2010
Global:
#5593
09.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#246
06.2003
Global:
#70
08.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Linus Torvalds from Wikipedia articles about Linux, Git, Linux kernel, History of Linux and Linux Foundation. Whereas reading the article about Linus Torvalds people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Git, Linux kernel, Nils Torvalds, Linux Foundation and Linuss Law.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zhminnan: Linus Torvalds

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