Wait (command)

Wait - command which pauses until execution of a background process has ended. Article “Wait (command)” in English Wikipedia has 9.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Wait (command)”, its content was written by 27 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 203 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1646 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #173386 in January 2011
• Global: #51524 in July 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #228254 in April 2015
• Global: #229139 in January 2015

There are 16 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) Wait (Unix)		18.4173
2	Portuguese (pt) Wait (Unix)		17.7848
3	French (fr) Wait (Unix)		14.122
4	English (en) Wait (command)		9.7858
5	Chinese (zh) Wait (命令)		7.5346
6	Greek (el) Wait (Unix)		4.6311
7	Romanian (ro) Wait (comandă)		4.2523
8	Japanese (ja) Wait		3.747
9	Korean (ko) Wait (명령어)		3.1576
10	Czech (cs) Wait		3.1369

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wait (command)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wait (command)		312 549
2	Japanese (ja) Wait		34 320
3	Russian (ru) Wait (команда)		27 841
4	Spanish (es) Wait (comando)		25 440
5	Polish (pl) Wait (Unix)		23 816
6	French (fr) Wait (Unix)		20 467
7	Chinese (zh) Wait (命令)		14 259
8	Czech (cs) Wait		6 314
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wait		4 519
10	Greek (el) Wait (Unix)		2 815

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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 "Wait (command)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wait (command)		501
2	Spanish (es) Wait (comando)		43
3	Japanese (ja) Wait		35
4	Russian (ru) Wait (команда)		33
5	Chinese (zh) Wait (命令)		32
6	French (fr) Wait (Unix)		22
7	Czech (cs) Wait		10
8	Catalan (ca) Wait		9
9	Korean (ko) Wait (명령어)		8
10	Hungarian (hu) Wait (Unix)		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wait (command)		27
2	Russian (ru) Wait (команда)		16
3	Czech (cs) Wait		12
4	Japanese (ja) Wait		10
5	Polish (pl) Wait (Unix)		10
6	Spanish (es) Wait (comando)		8
7	Catalan (ca) Wait		5
8	Hungarian (hu) Wait (Unix)		5
9	Greek (el) Wait (Unix)		3
10	Ukrainian (uk) Wait		3

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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 "Wait (command)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Wait		0
2	Czech (cs) Wait		0
3	Greek (el) Wait (Unix)		0
4	English (en) Wait (command)		0
5	Spanish (es) Wait (comando)		0
6	Persian (fa) Wait (دستور)		0
7	French (fr) Wait (Unix)		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Wait (Unix)		0
9	Japanese (ja) Wait		0
10	Korean (ko) Wait (명령어)		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 "Wait (command)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wait (command)		203
2	French (fr) Wait (Unix)		171
3	Russian (ru) Wait (команда)		171
4	Korean (ko) Wait (명령어)		145
5	Hungarian (hu) Wait (Unix)		125
6	Ukrainian (uk) Wait		119
7	Japanese (ja) Wait		118
8	Czech (cs) Wait		114
9	Chinese (zh) Wait (命令)		112
10	Portuguese (pt) Wait (Unix)		109

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Wait
cs	Czech Wait
el	Greek Wait (Unix)
en	English Wait (command)
es	Spanish Wait (comando)
fa	Persian Wait (دستور)
fr	French Wait (Unix)
hu	Hungarian Wait (Unix)
ja	Japanese Wait
ko	Korean Wait (명령어)
pl	Polish Wait (Unix)
pt	Portuguese Wait (Unix)
ro	Romanian Wait (comandă)
ru	Russian Wait (команда)
uk	Ukrainian Wait
zh	Chinese Wait (命令)

Best Rank

English: #228254 04.2015

Global: #229139 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #173386 01.2011

Global: #51524 07.2010

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