Open-source hardware

Open hardware - hardware whose design documents are openly accessible to and modifiable by others. Article "Open-source hardware" in English Wikipedia has 90.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 92 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Open-source hardware" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Open-source hardware", its content was written by 392 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1122 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2894 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4375 in December 2009
• Global: #10532 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #44508 in April 2015
• Global: #49934 in April 2015

There are 28 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	English (en) Open-source hardware		90.127
2	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		86.4048
3	Estonian (et) Avalikseadmed		70.7005
4	French (fr) Matériel libre		56.7933
5	Chinese (zh) 開源硬件		56.3511
6	Ukrainian (uk) Відкрите апаратне забезпечення		52.9889
7	Swedish (sv) Öppen hårdvara		51.4489
8	Greek (el) Υλισμικό ανοικτής πηγής		50.1759
9	Basque (eu) Kode irekiko hardware		48.4166
10	Spanish (es) Hardware libre		40.5208

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Open-source hardware" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open-source hardware		2 370 073
2	Spanish (es) Hardware libre		841 336
3	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		198 610
4	French (fr) Matériel libre		149 660
5	Japanese (ja) オープンソースハードウェア		115 772
6	Russian (ru) Открытое аппаратное обеспечение		89 695
7	Polish (pl) Open Hardware		81 441
8	Chinese (zh) 開源硬件		73 278
9	Portuguese (pt) Hardware livre		70 180
10	Italian (it) Hardware libero		60 868

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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 "Open-source hardware" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open-source hardware		7 621
2	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		650
3	Spanish (es) Hardware libre		593
4	Chinese (zh) 開源硬件		254
5	Japanese (ja) オープンソースハードウェア		227
6	French (fr) Matériel libre		223
7	Russian (ru) Открытое аппаратное обеспечение		214
8	Portuguese (pt) Hardware livre		93
9	Polish (pl) Open Hardware		78
10	Arabic (ar) عتاد مفتوح المصدر		77

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

Language versions of the article "Open-source hardware" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open-source hardware		392
2	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		154
3	French (fr) Matériel libre		133
4	Spanish (es) Hardware libre		90
5	Russian (ru) Открытое аппаратное обеспечение		61
6	Italian (it) Hardware libero		41
7	Dutch (nl) Open hardware		28
8	Polish (pl) Open Hardware		27
9	Portuguese (pt) Hardware livre		26
10	Chinese (zh) 開源硬件		23

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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 "Open-source hardware" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open-source hardware		4
2	Bulgarian (bg) Свободен хардуер		1
3	Estonian (et) Avalikseadmed		1
4	Italian (it) Hardware libero		1
5	Norwegian (no) Fri og åpen maskinvare		1
6	Arabic (ar) عتاد مفتوح المصدر		0
7	Catalan (ca) Maquinari lliure		0
8	Czech (cs) Open-source hardware		0
9	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		0
10	Greek (el) Υλισμικό ανοικτής πηγής		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 "Open-source hardware" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Open-source hardware		1 122
2	Korean (ko) 오픈 소스 하드웨어		183
3	Chinese (zh) 開源硬件		175
4	German (de) Open-Source-Hardware		172
5	Spanish (es) Hardware libre		138
6	Japanese (ja) オープンソースハードウェア		124
7	Arabic (ar) عتاد مفتوح المصدر		123
8	Portuguese (pt) Hardware livre		114
9	French (fr) Matériel libre		107
10	Russian (ru) Открытое аппаратное обеспечение		106

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عتاد مفتوح المصدر
bg	Bulgarian Свободен хардуер
ca	Catalan Maquinari lliure
cs	Czech Open-source hardware
de	German Open-Source-Hardware
el	Greek Υλισμικό ανοικτής πηγής
en	English Open-source hardware
es	Spanish Hardware libre
et	Estonian Avalikseadmed
eu	Basque Kode irekiko hardware
fa	Persian سخت‌افزار متن‌باز
fi	Finnish Avoin laitteisto
fr	French Matériel libre
hi	Hindi मुक्तस्रोत हार्डवेयर
it	Italian Hardware libero
ja	Japanese オープンソースハードウェア
ko	Korean 오픈 소스 하드웨어
nl	Dutch Open hardware
no	Norwegian Fri og åpen maskinvare
pl	Polish Open Hardware
pt	Portuguese Hardware livre
ro	Romanian Hardware cu sursă deschisă
ru	Russian Открытое аппаратное обеспечение
simple	Simple English Open hardware
sv	Swedish Öppen hårdvara
tr	Turkish Açık kaynak donanım
uk	Ukrainian Відкрите апаратне забезпечення
zh	Chinese 開源硬件

Best Rank

English: #44508 04.2015

Global: #49934 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #4375 12.2009

Global: #10532 11.2010

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