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Named pipe

Quality:

Named pipe - computing pipe which is accessible as a filesystem object. Article “Named pipe” in English Wikipedia has 16.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.89 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Named pipe”, its content was written by 109 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 215 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 204 times in English Wikipedia and cited 864 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #15282 in June 2004
  • Global: #45219 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #64791 in April 2008
  • Global: #96979 in April 2015

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
命名管道
22.7228
2Kazakh (kk)
Атаулы арна
21.3824
3Ukrainian (uk)
Іменований канал
20.4273
4Catalan (ca)
Canonada amb nom
20.2527
5Finnish (fi)
Nimetty putki
20.0756
6English (en)
Named pipe
16.9067
7Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
15.0622
8Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
11.2493
9Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
10.7972
10French (fr)
Tube nommé
8.2961
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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 "Named pipe" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Named pipe
1 653 537
2Russian (ru)
Именованный канал
250 293
3Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
148 547
4French (fr)
Tube nommé
57 972
5Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
47 676
6Chinese (zh)
命名管道
23 861
7Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
20 269
8Czech (cs)
Pojmenovaná roura
11 670
9Ukrainian (uk)
Іменований канал
8 118
10Kazakh (kk)
Атаулы арна
1 818
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Named pipe" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Named pipe
3 957
2Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
331
3Russian (ru)
Именованный канал
307
4Chinese (zh)
命名管道
90
5French (fr)
Tube nommé
74
6Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
49
7Ukrainian (uk)
Іменований канал
44
8Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
25
9Czech (cs)
Pojmenovaná roura
14
10Finnish (fi)
Nimetty putki
11
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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 "Named pipe" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Named pipe
109
2Russian (ru)
Именованный канал
25
3French (fr)
Tube nommé
23
4Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
19
5Ukrainian (uk)
Іменований канал
12
6Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
8
7Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
5
8Czech (cs)
Pojmenovaná roura
4
9Norwegian (no)
Navngitt pipe
3
10Chinese (zh)
命名管道
3
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Named pipe" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
1
2Catalan (ca)
Canonada amb nom
0
3Czech (cs)
Pojmenovaná roura
0
4English (en)
Named pipe
0
5Finnish (fi)
Nimetty putki
0
6French (fr)
Tube nommé
0
7Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
0
8Kazakh (kk)
Атаулы арна
0
9Norwegian (no)
Navngitt pipe
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
0
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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 "Named pipe" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Именованный канал
385
2English (en)
Named pipe
204
3Japanese (ja)
名前付きパイプ
83
4Korean (ko)
명명된 파이프
54
5Ukrainian (uk)
Іменований канал
44
6French (fr)
Tube nommé
35
7Chinese (zh)
命名管道
24
8Portuguese (pt)
Pipe nomeado
16
9Czech (cs)
Pojmenovaná roura
10
10Finnish (fi)
Nimetty putki
6
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Canonada amb nom
csCzech
Pojmenovaná roura
enEnglish
Named pipe
fiFinnish
Nimetty putki
frFrench
Tube nommé
jaJapanese
名前付きパイプ
kkKazakh
Атаулы арна
koKorean
명명된 파이프
noNorwegian
Navngitt pipe
ptPortuguese
Pipe nomeado
ruRussian
Именованный канал
ukUkrainian
Іменований канал
zhChinese
命名管道

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#64791
04.2008
Global:
#96979
04.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#15282
06.2004
Global:
#45219
06.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Named pipe from Wikipedia articles about 2024 CrowdStrike incident, Inter-process communication, Shell pipeline, GNU Core Utilities and Unix file types. Whereas reading the article about Named pipe people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Shell pipeline, Inter-process communication, Anonymous pipe, FIFO and Process substitution.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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