In the Beginning... Was the Command Line

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In the Beginning... Was the Command Line

Quality:

In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - essay by Neal Stephenson. Article “In the Beginning... Was the Command Line” in French Wikipedia has 1.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “In the Beginning... Was the Command Line”, its content was written by 5 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 102 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in French Wikipedia and cited 50 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (French): #29643 in August 2014
  • Global: #3816 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (French): #881221 in December 2016
  • Global: #323183 in April 2009

There are 4 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
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
18.5026
2Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
18.0616
3Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
8.993
4French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
1.062
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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 "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
341 604
2Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
29 407
3French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
1 672
4Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
673
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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 "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
1 682
2Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
58
3French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
9
4Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
9
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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 "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
79
2Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
12
3Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
6
4French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
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 "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
1
2Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
0
3French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
0
4Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
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 "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
42
2French (fr)
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
4
3Spanish (es)
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
3
4Ukrainian (uk)
На початку був командний рядок
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
esSpanish
En el principio fue la línea de comandos
frFrench
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
ukUkrainian
На початку був командний рядок

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank French:
#881221
12.2016
Global:
#323183
04.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank French:
#29643
08.2014
Global:
#3816
12.2001

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on In the Beginning... Was the Command Line from Wikipedia articles about Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, Command-line interface, Command language and Blinking twelve problem. Whereas reading the article about In the Beginning... Was the Command Line people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Neal Stephenson, BeOS, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, MacOS and Command-line interface.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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