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Power-on self-test - process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. Article "Power-on self-test" in English Wikipedia has 51.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 21 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 "Power-on self-test" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Power-on self-test", its content was written by 200 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 729 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 142 times in English Wikipedia and cited 412 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #14448 in November 2014
  • Global: #8810 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #36791 in September 2010
  • Global: #38196 in September 2010

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Power-on self-test
51.5827
2Turkish (tr)
POST
35.2809
3Simple English (simple)
Power-on self test
27.9432
4Czech (cs)
Power On Self Test
26.5618
5Chinese (zh)
加电自检
19.7176
6Arabic (ar)
اختبار التشغيل الذاتي
16.0661
7Korean (ko)
시동 자체 시험
15.5997
8Spanish (es)
POST
14.2126
9Azerbaijani (az)
POST
14.0275
10Japanese (ja)
Power On Self Test
13.6417
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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 "Power-on self-test" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Power-on self-test
2 858 927
2Spanish (es)
POST
579 096
3Russian (ru)
POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
403 488
4Portuguese (pt)
Power-on self-test
301 260
5German (de)
Power-on self-test
246 905
6Polish (pl)
POST
203 500
7French (fr)
Power-on self-test (informatique)
151 170
8Japanese (ja)
Power On Self Test
146 244
9Italian (it)
Power-on self-test
89 881
10Indonesian (id)
Power-on self test
58 330
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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 "Power-on self-test" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Power-on self-test
5 803
2Russian (ru)
POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
614
3German (de)
Power-on self-test
395
4Spanish (es)
POST
289
5Simple English (simple)
Power-on self test
231
6Chinese (zh)
加电自检
188
7French (fr)
Power-on self-test (informatique)
176
8Japanese (ja)
Power On Self Test
140
9Portuguese (pt)
Power-on self-test
128
10Polish (pl)
POST
125
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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 "Power-on self-test" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Power-on self-test
200
2German (de)
Power-on self-test
83
3Spanish (es)
POST
44
4French (fr)
Power-on self-test (informatique)
44
5Russian (ru)
POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
40
6Polish (pl)
POST
37
7Italian (it)
Power-on self-test
31
8Czech (cs)
Power On Self Test
29
9Dutch (nl)
Power-on self-test
25
10Hungarian (hu)
POST
22
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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 "Power-on self-test" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Power On Self Test
2
2German (de)
Power-on self-test
1
3English (en)
Power-on self-test
1
4Persian (fa)
خودآزمایی هنگام روشن شدن
1
5Turkish (tr)
POST
1
6Arabic (ar)
اختبار التشغيل الذاتي
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
POST
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
POST
0
9Catalan (ca)
POST
0
10Esperanto (eo)
POST
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 "Power-on self-test" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Power-on self-test
142
2Chinese (zh)
加电自检
25
3Spanish (es)
POST
24
4German (de)
Power-on self-test
23
5French (fr)
Power-on self-test (informatique)
19
6Portuguese (pt)
Power-on self-test
17
7Czech (cs)
Power On Self Test
16
8Japanese (ja)
Power On Self Test
16
9Italian (it)
Power-on self-test
15
10Russian (ru)
POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
15
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اختبار التشغيل الذاتي
azAzerbaijani
POST
bgBulgarian
POST
caCatalan
POST
csCzech
Power On Self Test
deGerman
Power-on self-test
enEnglish
Power-on self-test
eoEsperanto
POST
esSpanish
POST
faPersian
خودآزمایی هنگام روشن شدن
frFrench
Power-on self-test (informatique)
glGalician
POST
huHungarian
POST
idIndonesian
Power-on self test
itItalian
Power-on self-test
jaJapanese
Power On Self Test
koKorean
시동 자체 시험
nlDutch
Power-on self-test
plPolish
POST
ptPortuguese
Power-on self-test
ruRussian
POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
simpleSimple English
Power-on self test
svSwedish
Power-on Self Test
trTurkish
POST
ukUkrainian
POST
viVietnamese
Tự kiểm tra khi nguồn bật
zhChinese
加电自检

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#36791
09.2010 		Global:
#38196
09.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#14448
11.2014 		Global:
#8810
10.2024

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Power-on self-test from Wikipedia articles about BIOS, Macintosh startup, Post, Bootloader and Postal code. Whereas reading the article about Power-on self-test people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Booting, BIOS, POST card, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and Macintosh startup.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: Power-on self-test
es: POST
ru: POST (аппаратное обеспечение)
pt: Power-on self-test
de: Power-on self-test
pl: POST
fr: Power-on self-test (informatique)
ja: Power On Self Test
it: Power-on self-test
id: Power-on self test
zh: 加电自检
cs: Power On Self Test
nl: Power-on self-test
hu: POST
ar: اختبار التشغيل الذاتي
uk: POST
sv: Power-on Self Test
vi: Tự kiểm tra khi nguồn bật
az: POST
bg: POST
fa: خودآزمایی هنگام روشن شدن
ko: 시동 자체 시험
gl: POST
tr: POST
ca: POST
simple: Power-on self test
eo: POST

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