Redirection (computing)

Redirection - form of interprocess communication, and is a function common to most command-line interpreters, including the various Unix shells that can redirect standard streams to user-specified locations. Article “Redirection (computing)” in English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.61 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Redirection (computing)”, its content was written by 74 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in English Wikipedia and cited 152 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37767 in April 2004
• Global: #70364 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #150639 in September 2008
• Global: #58798 in September 2014

There are 11 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	Hungarian (hu) Átirányítás (informatika)		36.9864
2	English (en) Redirection (computing)		30.6671
3	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		23.1009
4	Chinese (zh) 重定向 (计算机)		14.6016
5	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		13.0362
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		12.0129
7	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		9.6247
8	Portuguese (pt) Redirecionamento (computação)		7.9449
9	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		6.1879
10	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		5.404

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Redirection (computing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Redirection (computing)		605 402
2	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		248 672
3	Italian (it) Redirezione		76 560
4	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		71 089
5	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		44 866
6	Chinese (zh) 重定向 (计算机)		21 101
7	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		10 578
8	Portuguese (pt) Redirecionamento (computação)		2 201
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		660
10	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		98

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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 "Redirection (computing)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Redirection (computing)		914
2	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		115
3	Chinese (zh) 重定向 (计算机)		69
4	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		55
5	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		46
6	Italian (it) Redirezione		44
7	Hungarian (hu) Átirányítás (informatika)		43
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		18
9	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		15
10	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		14

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Redirection (computing)		74
2	Italian (it) Redirezione		38
3	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		29
4	Chinese (zh) 重定向 (计算机)		16
5	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		11
6	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		7
7	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		5
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		5
9	Portuguese (pt) Redirecionamento (computação)		3
10	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		1

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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 "Redirection (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hungarian (hu) Átirányítás (informatika)		1
2	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		0
3	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		0
4	English (en) Redirection (computing)		0
5	Italian (it) Redirezione		0
6	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		0
7	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Redirecionamento (computação)		0
9	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		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 "Redirection (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Redirection (computing)		41
2	Japanese (ja) リダイレクト (CLI)		25
3	Italian (it) Redirezione		23
4	Russian (ru) Перенаправление ввода-вывода		23
5	Korean (ko) 리다이렉션		18
6	Czech (cs) Přesměrování		11
7	Chinese (zh) 重定向 (计算机)		9
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển hướng (điện toán)		2
9	Catalan (ca) Redirecció (informàtica)		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Átirányítás (informatika)		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Redirecció (informàtica)
cs	Czech Přesměrování
en	English Redirection (computing)
hu	Hungarian Átirányítás (informatika)
it	Italian Redirezione
ja	Japanese リダイレクト (CLI)
ko	Korean 리다이렉션
pt	Portuguese Redirecionamento (computação)
ru	Russian Перенаправление ввода-вывода
vi	Vietnamese Chuyển hướng (điện toán)
zh	Chinese 重定向 (计算机)

Best Rank

English: #150639 09.2008

Global: #58798 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #37767 04.2004

Global: #70364 03.2011

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