Operating system

Quality:

Operating system - software that manages computer hardware resources. Article “Operating system” in English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 187 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1198^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 1876^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 411^th most popular in all topics.

The 555^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9850^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3999^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Operating system” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 32 authors in all languages (3999^th place).

Since the creation of article “Operating system”, its content was written by 1615 registered users of English Wikipedia (1876^th place) and edited by 7840 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (555^th place).

The article is cited 16694 times in English Wikipedia (1088^th place) and cited 127040 times in all languages (970^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #135 in June 2002
• Global: #8 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #471 in September 2014
• Global: #64 in October 2009

There are 54 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) Operating system		95
2	Esperanto (eo) Operaciumo		82.0639
3	French (fr) Système d'exploitation		81
4	Bulgarian (bg) Операционна система		71.3896
5	Slovenian (sl) Operacijski sistem		69.5809
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Operativsystem		63.4337
7	German (de) Betriebssystem		61.8659
8	Croatian (hr) Operacijski sustav		60.1515
9	Korean (ko) 운영체제		56.5277
10	Finnish (fi) Käyttöjärjestelmä		55.0614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operating system		42 439 134
2	Spanish (es) Sistema operativo		37 932 326
3	Russian (ru) Операционная система		7 196 301
4	French (fr) Système d'exploitation		5 723 400
5	Portuguese (pt) Sistema operativo		5 306 652
6	German (de) Betriebssystem		4 394 886
7	Indonesian (id) Sistem operasi		4 203 882
8	Japanese (ja) オペレーティングシステム		4 027 825
9	Polish (pl) System operacyjny		3 248 495
10	Italian (it) Sistema operativo		2 879 581

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) Operating system		51 391
2	Spanish (es) Sistema operativo		8 166
3	Russian (ru) Операционная система		5 872
4	Japanese (ja) オペレーティングシステム		4 159
5	French (fr) Système d'exploitation		4 123
6	German (de) Betriebssystem		3 654
7	Portuguese (pt) Sistema operativo		2 649
8	Chinese (zh) 操作系统		2 011
9	Italian (it) Sistema operativo		1 879
10	Persian (fa) سیستم‌عامل		1 806

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operating system		1 615
2	German (de) Betriebssystem		556
3	Spanish (es) Sistema operativo		539
4	French (fr) Système d'exploitation		452
5	Italian (it) Sistema operativo		341
6	Portuguese (pt) Sistema operativo		250
7	Polish (pl) System operacyjny		245
8	Russian (ru) Операционная система		241
9	Turkish (tr) İşletim sistemi		216
10	Chinese (zh) 操作系统		215

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) Operating system		4
2	Bulgarian (bg) Операционна система		3
3	Spanish (es) Sistema operativo		3
4	Portuguese (pt) Sistema operativo		3
5	German (de) Betriebssystem		2
6	French (fr) Système d'exploitation		2
7	Indonesian (id) Sistem operasi		2
8	Polish (pl) System operacyjny		2
9	Slovak (sk) Operačný systém		2
10	Arabic (ar) نظام تشغيل		1

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

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