Open-source software

Quality:

Open-source software - software that anyone is free to use and redistribute in its current state with a permissive licence giving a libre access to its original source code (but not necessarily to modify it). Article “Open-source software” in English Wikipedia has 83.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 138 references and 35 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Open-source software” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Open-source software”, its content was written by 988 registered users of English Wikipedia (7099^th place) and edited by 2440 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5721 times in English Wikipedia (4065^th place) and cited 20947 times in all languages (8222^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #609 in October 2018
• Global: #1228 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5969 in April 2015
• Global: #9595 in April 2015

There are 41 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, 2026 (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 software		83.2344
2	Korean (ko) 오픈 소스 소프트웨어		82.5335
3	Japanese (ja) オープンソースソフトウェア		75.791
4	Basque (eu) Kode irekiko software		64.4482
5	Portuguese (pt) Software de código aberto		51.4662
6	Bulgarian (bg) Софтуер с отворен код		50.0574
7	Chinese (zh) 开源软件		48.2991
8	Czech (cs) Otevřený software		45.8836
9	Catalan (ca) Programari de codi obert		42.7063
10	Turkish (tr) Açık kaynak yazılım		36.4012

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open-source software		12 025 288
2	Russian (ru) Открытое программное обеспечение		1 309 601
3	Polish (pl) Otwarte oprogramowanie		783 602
4	Japanese (ja) オープンソースソフトウェア		522 658
5	Chinese (zh) 开源软件		514 469
6	Spanish (es) Software de código abierto		485 338
7	Dutch (nl) Opensourcesoftware		400 033
8	Czech (cs) Otevřený software		382 968
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phần mềm nguồn mở		338 986
10	Portuguese (pt) Software de código aberto		228 186

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) Open-source software		19 458
2	Russian (ru) Открытое программное обеспечение		2 425
3	Japanese (ja) オープンソースソフトウェア		1 486
4	Chinese (zh) 开源软件		978
5	Polish (pl) Otwarte oprogramowanie		690
6	Vietnamese (vi) Phần mềm nguồn mở		507
7	Czech (cs) Otevřený software		400
8	Spanish (es) Software de código abierto		395
9	Dutch (nl) Opensourcesoftware		323
10	Korean (ko) 오픈 소스 소프트웨어		253

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open-source software		988
2	Dutch (nl) Opensourcesoftware		162
3	Russian (ru) Открытое программное обеспечение		155
4	Hebrew (he) קוד פתוח		111
5	Polish (pl) Otwarte oprogramowanie		87
6	Hungarian (hu) Nyílt forráskódú szoftver		80
7	Czech (cs) Otevřený software		78
8	Chinese (zh) 开源软件		68
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phần mềm nguồn mở		66
10	Japanese (ja) オープンソースソフトウェア		59

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) Open-source software		7
2	Arabic (ar) برمجيات مفتوحة المصدر		2
3	Basque (eu) Kode irekiko software		2
4	Romanian (ro) Software cu sursă deschisă		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Açıq mənbəli proqram təminatı		0
6	Belarusian (be) Адкрытае праграмнае забеспячэнне		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Софтуер с отворен код		0
8	Catalan (ca) Programari de codi obert		0
9	Czech (cs) Otevřený software		0
10	Greek (el) Λογισμικό ανοικτού κώδικα		0

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

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