Null device

/dev/null - special computer file that discards all writes. Article “Null device” in English Wikipedia has 30.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Null device”, its content was written by 167 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 61 times in English Wikipedia and cited 296 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2000 in August 2003
• Global: #6332 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10019 in August 2014
• Global: #26853 in August 2014

There are 27 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	Slovak (sk) Nulové zariadenie		30.4472
2	English (en) Null device		30.1827
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết bị rỗng		27.59
4	Simple English (simple) Null device		24.9194
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		18.9753
6	Indonesian (id) /dev/null		17.6521
7	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		16.6344
8	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		16.2608
9	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		15.1276
10	Serbian (sr) /dev/null		15.0998

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Null device" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Null device		1 644 839
2	German (de) /dev/null		164 380
3	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		141 096
4	Russian (ru) /dev/null		111 058
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		78 493
6	Polish (pl) /dev/null		72 025
7	Spanish (es) /dev/null		58 068
8	Italian (it) /dev/null		39 407
9	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		35 558
10	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		27 479

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Null device" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Null device		1 291
2	Russian (ru) /dev/null		102
3	Spanish (es) /dev/null		84
4	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		60
5	German (de) /dev/null		55
6	French (fr) Périphérique nul		54
7	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		45
8	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		31
9	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		30
10	Korean (ko) 널 장치		20

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

Language versions of the article "Null device" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Null device		167
2	German (de) /dev/null		85
3	French (fr) Périphérique nul		56
4	Russian (ru) /dev/null		48
5	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		31
6	Italian (it) /dev/null		26
7	Polish (pl) /dev/null		19
8	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		16
9	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		16
10	Arabic (ar) /dev/null		13

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

Language versions of the article "Null device" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) /dev/null		1
2	Arabic (ar) /dev/null		0
3	Czech (cs) /dev/null		0
4	German (de) /dev/null		0
5	English (en) Null device		0
6	Spanish (es) /dev/null		0
7	Persian (fa) افزاره هیچ		0
8	Finnish (fi) /dev/null		0
9	French (fr) Périphérique nul		0
10	Hungarian (hu) /dev/null		0

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

Language versions of the article "Null device" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Null device		61
2	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		29
3	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		28
4	Korean (ko) 널 장치		20
5	German (de) /dev/null		18
6	Italian (it) /dev/null		16
7	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		16
8	French (fr) Périphérique nul		15
9	Russian (ru) /dev/null		12
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết bị rỗng		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic /dev/null
ca	Catalan /dev/null
cs	Czech /dev/null
de	German /dev/null
en	English Null device
es	Spanish /dev/null
fa	Persian افزاره هیچ
fi	Finnish /dev/null
fr	French Périphérique nul
hu	Hungarian /dev/null
id	Indonesian /dev/null
it	Italian /dev/null
ja	Japanese /dev/null
ko	Korean 널 장치
nl	Dutch /dev/null
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) /dev/null
pl	Polish /dev/null
pt	Portuguese Dispositivo nulo
ru	Russian /dev/null
simple	Simple English Null device
sk	Slovak Nulové zariadenie
sl	Slovenian /dev/null
sr	Serbian /dev/null
sv	Swedish /dev/null
tr	Turkish /dev/null
vi	Vietnamese Thiết bị rỗng
zh	Chinese /dev/null

Best Rank

English: #10019 08.2014

Global: #26853 08.2014

Best Rank

English: #2000 08.2003

Global: #6332 08.2003

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