Cron (Unix)

Quality:

Cron - time-based job scheduler. This software is the 55^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 89^th most popular software in Spanish Wikipedia. Article "Cron (Unix)" in Spanish Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Spanish Wikipedia:

The 89^th most popular in software in Spanish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 55^th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article "Cron (Unix)", its content was written by 45 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 992 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Cron is on the 89^th place in local ranking of software in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 55^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 28 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 2293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #2791 in April 2006
• Global: #9960 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #5294 in November 2011
• Global: #6023 in September 2013

There are 26 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) Cron		45.3811
2	Chinese (zh) Cron		31.3276
3	Simple English (simple) Cron		22.3096
4	Ukrainian (uk) Cron		21.1208
5	Finnish (fi) Cron		21.1161
6	Arabic (ar) كرون		20.4957
7	Japanese (ja) Cron		19.2984
8	Norwegian (no) Cron		19.1143
9	French (fr) Cron		18.7333
10	Turkish (tr) Cron		18.3949

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cron		9 848 822
2	French (fr) Cron		1 852 604
3	German (de) Cron		1 511 612
4	Russian (ru) Cron		1 504 652
5	Spanish (es) Cron (Unix)		995 294
6	Japanese (ja) Cron		648 849
7	Polish (pl) Cron		346 880
8	Chinese (zh) Cron		224 365
9	Dutch (nl) Cronjob		163 481
10	Czech (cs) Cron		131 849

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) Cron		9 550
2	German (de) Cron		1 568
3	French (fr) Cron		1 507
4	Russian (ru) Cron		1 482
5	Spanish (es) Cron (Unix)		922
6	Japanese (ja) Cron		660
7	Chinese (zh) Cron		617
8	Simple English (simple) Cron		354
9	Polish (pl) Cron		266
10	Dutch (nl) Cronjob		216

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cron		448
2	German (de) Cron		135
3	French (fr) Cron		119
4	Russian (ru) Cron		54
5	Spanish (es) Cron (Unix)		45
6	Chinese (zh) Cron		25
7	Dutch (nl) Cronjob		24
8	Polish (pl) Cron		24
9	Japanese (ja) Cron		22
10	Czech (cs) Cron		14

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	English (en) Cron		1
2	Chinese (zh) Cron		1
3	Arabic (ar) كرون		0
4	Catalan (ca) Cron (Unix)		0
5	Czech (cs) Cron		0
6	Danish (da) Cron		0
7	German (de) Cron		0
8	Spanish (es) Cron (Unix)		0
9	Persian (fa) کرون جاب		0
10	Finnish (fi) Cron		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information