Trash (computing)

Trash - temporary storage for files that have been deleted. This software is the 274^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 462^nd most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Trash (computing)” in English Wikipedia has 56.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 50 references and 10 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Spanish.

Since the creation of article “Trash (computing)”, its content was written by 224 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 492 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Trash is on the 462^nd place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 274^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 62 times in English Wikipedia and cited 184 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16284 in November 2010
• Global: #18980 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #49774 in June 2008
• Global: #51206 in September 2010

There are 19 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) Trash (computing)		56.7972
2	Ukrainian (uk) Кошик (елемент інтерфейсу)		46.4597
3	Turkish (tr) Çöp Kutusu (bilgisayar)		37.1001
4	Tamil (ta) மறுசுழற்சிக் கூடை		32.2683
5	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		30.5202
6	Portuguese (pt) Lixeira (computação)		30.2287
7	Urdu (ur) کوڑا دان (کمپیوٹنگ)		25.6002
8	Hebrew (he) סל מחזור (מחשב)		23.2829
9	Russian (ru) Корзина (элемент интерфейса)		19.0378
10	Chinese (zh) 資源回收筒 (計算機)		18.9955

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Papelera de reciclaje (informática)		1 670 009
2	English (en) Trash (computing)		1 373 796
3	Russian (ru) Корзина (элемент интерфейса)		214 605
4	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		210 015
5	French (fr) Corbeille (informatique)		199 762
6	Portuguese (pt) Lixeira (computação)		119 305
7	Turkish (tr) Çöp Kutusu (bilgisayar)		70 291
8	Korean (ko) 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)		61 551
9	Japanese (ja) ごみ箱 (GUI)		45 860
10	Polish (pl) Kosz (folder)		31 358

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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 "Trash (computing)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Papelera de reciclaje (informática)		4 808
2	English (en) Trash (computing)		4 170
3	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		2 763
4	French (fr) Corbeille (informatique)		1 333
5	Turkish (tr) Çöp Kutusu (bilgisayar)		710
6	Portuguese (pt) Lixeira (computação)		490
7	Hebrew (he) סל מחזור (מחשב)		372
8	Russian (ru) Корзина (элемент интерфейса)		339
9	Korean (ko) 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)		226
10	Japanese (ja) ごみ箱 (GUI)		76

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

Language versions of the article "Trash (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) Trash (computing)		224
2	Spanish (es) Papelera de reciclaje (informática)		60
3	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		35
4	Japanese (ja) ごみ箱 (GUI)		31
5	French (fr) Corbeille (informatique)		30
6	Russian (ru) Корзина (элемент интерфейса)		30
7	Polish (pl) Kosz (folder)		19
8	Portuguese (pt) Lixeira (computação)		14
9	Korean (ko) 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)		11
10	Hebrew (he) סל מחזור (מחשב)		10

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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 "Trash (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Zakarrontzi (informatika)		1
2	Japanese (ja) ごみ箱 (GUI)		1
3	Korean (ko) 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)		1
4	English (en) Trash (computing)		0
5	Spanish (es) Papelera de reciclaje (informática)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Roskakori (tietojenkäsittely)		0
7	French (fr) Corbeille (informatique)		0
8	Hebrew (he) סל מחזור (מחשב)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Tempat sampah (komputer)		0
10	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		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 "Trash (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Trash (computing)		62
2	Russian (ru) Корзина (элемент интерфейса)		21
3	French (fr) Corbeille (informatique)		19
4	Korean (ko) 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)		18
5	Italian (it) Cestino (informatica)		12
6	Japanese (ja) ごみ箱 (GUI)		12
7	Spanish (es) Papelera de reciclaje (informática)		9
8	Portuguese (pt) Lixeira (computação)		8
9	Polish (pl) Kosz (folder)		7
10	Turkish (tr) Çöp Kutusu (bilgisayar)		4

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#	Language	Value
en	English Trash (computing)
es	Spanish Papelera de reciclaje (informática)
eu	Basque Zakarrontzi (informatika)
fi	Finnish Roskakori (tietojenkäsittely)
fr	French Corbeille (informatique)
he	Hebrew סל מחזור (מחשב)
id	Indonesian Tempat sampah (komputer)
it	Italian Cestino (informatica)
ja	Japanese ごみ箱 (GUI)
kk	Kazakh Қоржын (себет)
ko	Korean 휴지통 (컴퓨팅)
pl	Polish Kosz (folder)
pt	Portuguese Lixeira (computação)
ru	Russian Корзина (элемент интерфейса)
ta	Tamil மறுசுழற்சிக் கூடை
tr	Turkish Çöp Kutusu (bilgisayar)
uk	Ukrainian Кошик (елемент інтерфейсу)
ur	Urdu کوڑا دان (کمپیوٹنگ)
zh	Chinese 資源回收筒 (計算機)

Best Rank

English: #49774 06.2008

Global: #51206 09.2010

Best Rank

English: #16284 11.2010

Global: #18980 07.2004

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