Unix domain socket

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Unix domain socket

Quality:

Unix domain socket - socket for exchanging data between processes executing on the same OS; similar to an Internet socket, but all communication occurs within the same OS. Article "Unix domain socket" in English Wikipedia has 16.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Unix domain socket" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Unix domain socket", its content was written by 75 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 179 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 289 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #81238 in July 2005
  • Global: #94407 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #103189 in April 2015
  • Global: #129032 in January 2015

There are 15 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
1Finnish (fi)
Unix domain socket
23.3753
2Korean (ko)
유닉스 도메인 소켓
18.9374
3English (en)
Unix domain socket
16.4676
4Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
16.4594
5Arabic (ar)
مقبس مجال يونكس
14.5189
6Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
8.9023
7Russian (ru)
Сокет домена Unix
7.0742
8Portuguese (pt)
Soquete de domínio Unix
6.7123
9Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
3.4549
10German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
2.8385
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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 "Unix domain socket" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Unix domain socket
1 486 822
2Russian (ru)
Сокет домена Unix
142 855
3Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
112 367
4German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
64 894
5Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
38 266
6Chinese (zh)
Unix域套接字
33 897
7Italian (it)
Socket di dominio locale
16 056
8Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
10 526
9Portuguese (pt)
Soquete de domínio Unix
4 765
10Ukrainian (uk)
Локальні сокети
4 686
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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 "Unix domain socket" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Unix domain socket
4 776
2Russian (ru)
Сокет домена Unix
395
3Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
330
4German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
229
5Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
192
6Chinese (zh)
Unix域套接字
167
7Italian (it)
Socket di dominio locale
55
8Portuguese (pt)
Soquete de domínio Unix
30
9Korean (ko)
유닉스 도메인 소켓
29
10Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
25
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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 "Unix domain socket" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Unix domain socket
75
2German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
20
3Russian (ru)
Сокет домена Unix
18
4Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
11
5Italian (it)
Socket di dominio locale
11
6Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
9
7Ukrainian (uk)
Локальні сокети
7
8Chinese (zh)
Unix域套接字
7
9Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
5
10Norwegian (no)
Unix domain socket
5
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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 "Unix domain socket" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Unix domain socket
1
2Arabic (ar)
مقبس مجال يونكس
0
3Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
0
4German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
0
5Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
0
6Persian (fa)
سوکت دامنه یونیکس
0
7Finnish (fi)
Unix domain socket
0
8Italian (it)
Socket di dominio locale
0
9Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
0
10Korean (ko)
유닉스 도메인 소켓
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 "Unix domain socket" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Unix domain socket
108
2Russian (ru)
Сокет домена Unix
35
3German (de)
Unix Domain Socket
23
4Chinese (zh)
Unix域套接字
21
5Japanese (ja)
UNIXドメインソケット
18
6Czech (cs)
Unix domain socket
15
7Ukrainian (uk)
Локальні сокети
12
8Spanish (es)
Socket Unix
11
9Persian (fa)
سوکت دامنه یونیکس
10
10Portuguese (pt)
Soquete de domínio Unix
10
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مقبس مجال يونكس
csCzech
Unix domain socket
deGerman
Unix Domain Socket
enEnglish
Unix domain socket
esSpanish
Socket Unix
faPersian
سوکت دامنه یونیکس
fiFinnish
Unix domain socket
itItalian
Socket di dominio locale
jaJapanese
UNIXドメインソケット
koKorean
유닉스 도메인 소켓
noNorwegian
Unix domain socket
ptPortuguese
Soquete de domínio Unix
ruRussian
Сокет домена Unix
ukUkrainian
Локальні сокети
zhChinese
Unix域套接字

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#103189
04.2015
Global:
#129032
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#81238
07.2005
Global:
#94407
11.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Unix domain socket from Wikipedia articles about Berkeley sockets, Inter-process communication, Network socket, Socket and Port. Whereas reading the article about Unix domain socket people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Berkeley sockets, Network socket, Shell pipeline, Netlink and Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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