Linux kernel

Quality:

Linux kernel - Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems. Article "Linux kernel" in English Wikipedia has 92.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 399 references and 44 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4381^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3526^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article "Linux kernel" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Linux kernel", its content was written by 1169 registered users of English Wikipedia (4381^st place) and edited by 4171 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3526^th place).

The article is cited 1810 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10351 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #542 in December 2001
• Global: #543 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6092 in March 2015
• Global: #4938 in October 2013

There are 40 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	Norwegian (no) Linuxkjernen		94.3992
2	Chinese (zh) Linux内核		93.1727
3	English (en) Linux kernel		92.1789
4	Finnish (fi) Linux (ydin)		92
5	Vietnamese (vi) Hạt nhân Linux		90.5649
6	German (de) Linux (Kernel)		88.5714
7	Portuguese (pt) Linux (núcleo)		86.3636
8	Korean (ko) 리눅스 커널		80.1735
9	Spanish (es) Núcleo Linux		64.966
10	French (fr) Noyau Linux		63.2139

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linux kernel		11 140 024
2	Spanish (es) Núcleo Linux		4 280 150
3	German (de) Linux (Kernel)		1 607 742
4	Russian (ru) Ядро Linux		1 543 967
5	French (fr) Noyau Linux		879 125
6	Japanese (ja) Linuxカーネル		754 465
7	Chinese (zh) Linux内核		612 041
8	Portuguese (pt) Linux (núcleo)		549 363
9	Italian (it) Linux (kernel)		526 823
10	Polish (pl) Linux (jądro)		512 284

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) Linux kernel		29 712
2	Russian (ru) Ядро Linux		4 843
3	Spanish (es) Núcleo Linux		2 927
4	German (de) Linux (Kernel)		2 863
5	French (fr) Noyau Linux		1 912
6	Japanese (ja) Linuxカーネル		1 622
7	Chinese (zh) Linux内核		1 355
8	Italian (it) Linux (kernel)		1 194
9	Portuguese (pt) Linux (núcleo)		923
10	Polish (pl) Linux (jądro)		608

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linux kernel		1 169
2	German (de) Linux (Kernel)		454
3	Spanish (es) Núcleo Linux		287
4	Russian (ru) Ядро Linux		237
5	French (fr) Noyau Linux		236
6	Italian (it) Linux (kernel)		195
7	Polish (pl) Linux (jądro)		148
8	Chinese (zh) Linux内核		129
9	Finnish (fi) Linux (ydin)		106
10	Dutch (nl) Linuxkernel		106

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) Linux kernel		4
2	German (de) Linux (Kernel)		2
3	French (fr) Noyau Linux		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Linux (rendszermag)		1
5	Romanian (ro) Linux (nucleul)		1
6	Tamil (ta) லினக்சு கருனி		1
7	Arabic (ar) نواة لينكس		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Linux nüvəsi		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Линукс (ядро)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Linux (nucli)		0

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

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