Thread (computing)

Thread - smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler. Article "Thread (computing)" in English Wikipedia has 44.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 19 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.

Since the creation of article "Thread (computing)", its content was written by 410 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1444 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1186 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6193 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #661 in April 2002
• Global: #943 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12232 in November 2014
• Global: #13200 in November 2014

There are 33 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) Thread (computing)		44.8995
2	Chinese (zh) 线程		35.0653
3	Portuguese (pt) Thread (computação)		31.827
4	Greek (el) Νήμα (υπολογιστές)		30.0046
5	Russian (ru) Поток выполнения		27.7243
6	Ukrainian (uk) Потік виконання		26.7857
7	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		24.92
8	Czech (cs) Vlákno (informatika)		22.5517
9	French (fr) Thread (informatique)		21.7504
10	Spanish (es) Hilo (informática)		21.4093

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thread (computing)		7 133 280
2	Spanish (es) Hilo (informática)		1 094 664
3	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		1 074 511
4	Japanese (ja) スレッド (コンピュータ)		1 038 898
5	French (fr) Thread (informatique)		857 833
6	Portuguese (pt) Thread (computação)		854 835
7	Italian (it) Thread (informatica)		500 949
8	Russian (ru) Поток выполнения		481 730
9	Chinese (zh) 线程		382 782
10	Polish (pl) Wątek (informatyka)		237 313

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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 "Thread (computing)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thread (computing)		11 344
2	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		929
3	Russian (ru) Поток выполнения		846
4	Chinese (zh) 线程		838
5	French (fr) Thread (informatique)		825
6	Japanese (ja) スレッド (コンピュータ)		807
7	Portuguese (pt) Thread (computação)		703
8	Korean (ko) 스레드 (컴퓨팅)		694
9	Italian (it) Thread (informatica)		555
10	Spanish (es) Hilo (informática)		542

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

Language versions of the article "Thread (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) Thread (computing)		410
2	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		163
3	French (fr) Thread (informatique)		110
4	Spanish (es) Hilo (informática)		84
5	Portuguese (pt) Thread (computação)		67
6	Dutch (nl) Thread (informatica)		52
7	Japanese (ja) スレッド (コンピュータ)		48
8	Italian (it) Thread (informatica)		47
9	Chinese (zh) 线程		42
10	Polish (pl) Wątek (informatyka)		40

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) תהליכון		3
2	Arabic (ar) تشعب (حوسبة)		2
3	Korean (ko) 스레드 (컴퓨팅)		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Tred (informatika)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Fil d'execució		0
6	Czech (cs) Vlákno (informatika)		0
7	Danish (da) Tråd (datalogi)		0
8	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		0
9	Greek (el) Νήμα (υπολογιστές)		0
10	English (en) Thread (computing)		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 "Thread (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thread (computing)		1 186
2	Persian (fa) ریسمان (رایانش)		529
3	Japanese (ja) スレッド (コンピュータ)		517
4	Chinese (zh) 线程		416
5	French (fr) Thread (informatique)		372
6	Russian (ru) Поток выполнения		314
7	Ukrainian (uk) Потік виконання		279
8	German (de) Thread (Informatik)		245
9	Portuguese (pt) Thread (computação)		239
10	Arabic (ar) تشعب (حوسبة)		237

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تشعب (حوسبة)
az	Azerbaijani Tred (informatika)
ca	Catalan Fil d'execució
cs	Czech Vlákno (informatika)
da	Danish Tråd (datalogi)
de	German Thread (Informatik)
el	Greek Νήμα (υπολογιστές)
en	English Thread (computing)
es	Spanish Hilo (informática)
et	Estonian Lõim (informaatika)
fa	Persian ریسمان (رایانش)
fr	French Thread (informatique)
he	Hebrew תהליכון
hu	Hungarian Szál (programozás)
id	Indonesian Utas (ilmu komputer)
it	Italian Thread (informatica)
ja	Japanese スレッド (コンピュータ)
ko	Korean 스레드 (컴퓨팅)
nl	Dutch Thread (informatica)
no	Norwegian Tråd (informatikk)
pl	Polish Wątek (informatyka)
pt	Portuguese Thread (computação)
ro	Romanian Fir de execuție
ru	Russian Поток выполнения
simple	Simple English Thread (computer science)
sk	Slovak Thread (multithreading)
sr	Serbian Нит (рачунарство)
sv	Swedish Tråd (datavetenskap)
th	Thai สายโยงใย
tr	Turkish İş parçacığı
uk	Ukrainian Потік виконання
vi	Vietnamese Luồng (điện toán)
zh	Chinese 线程

Best Rank

English: #12232 11.2014

Global: #13200 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #661 04.2002

Global: #943 04.2002

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