BIOS

Quality:

BIOS - common firmware system used to initialize hardware when a computer boots. This software is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 10^th most popular software in Spanish Wikipedia. Article “BIOS” in Spanish Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.54 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Spanish) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Spanish Wikipedia:

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The 3329^th most popular in Spanish Wikipedia.

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The 6175^th most editable in Spanish Wikipedia.

The 10^th most popular in software in Spanish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6982^nd most popular in all topics.

The 7334^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “BIOS”, its content was written by 210 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia (6175^th place) and edited by 2946 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7334^th place).

BIOS is on the 10^th place in local ranking of software in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 280 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 4588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #190 in February 2002
• Global: #532 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #980 in September 2009
• Global: #1957 in October 2009

There are 50 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) BIOS		77.4866
2	Estonian (et) Baasvahetussüsteem		52.3533
3	German (de) BIOS		42.1957
4	Esperanto (eo) BIOS		37.9649
5	Chinese (zh) BIOS		37.665
6	Catalan (ca) BIOS		37.3531
7	Czech (cs) BIOS		30.7593
8	Russian (ru) BIOS		30.2946
9	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		30.1719
10	Ukrainian (uk) BIOS		29.6852

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BIOS		10 927 744
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		6 050 259
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		2 598 785
4	Polish (pl) BIOS		1 830 992
5	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 459 994
6	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		1 376 326
7	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 215 612
8	German (de) BIOS		1 150 268
9	Italian (it) BIOS		1 018 200
10	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 017 101

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BIOS		17 683
2	Russian (ru) BIOS		3 445
3	Spanish (es) BIOS		1 993
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 767
5	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 558
6	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 438
7	German (de) BIOS		1 415
8	Italian (it) BIOS		829
9	Polish (pl) BIOS		761
10	Simple English (simple) BIOS		630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BIOS		728
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		210
3	Polish (pl) BIOS		165
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		153
5	Russian (ru) BIOS		130
6	Italian (it) BIOS		125
7	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		106
8	Dutch (nl) Basic input/output system		98
9	Chinese (zh) BIOS		80
10	Czech (cs) BIOS		76

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) BIOS		2
2	Czech (cs) BIOS		1
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		1
4	Tamil (ta) பயாஸ்		1
5	Arabic (ar) النظام الأساسي للإدخال والإخراج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) BIOS		0
7	Belarusian (be) BIOS		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) BIOS		0
9	Catalan (ca) BIOS		0
10	Danish (da) BIOS		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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