Bash

Quality:

GNU Bash - GNU Project implementation of the standard Unix shell. This software is the 92^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 71^st most popular software in Italian Wikipedia and the 20^th most popular programming language in Italian Wikipedia. Article "Bash" in Italian Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 6 references and 11 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:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 71^st most popular in software in Italian Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in programming languages in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 92^nd most popular in software.

The 29^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "Bash", its content was written by 99 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

GNU Bash is on the 71^st place in local ranking of software in Italian Wikipedia and on the 92^nd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

GNU Bash is on the 20^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Italian Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 185 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 4024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #471 in October 2004
• Global: #321 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #7668 in September 2019
• Global: #4705 in September 2014

There are 40 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Bash (Unix shell)		73.6741
2	Hungarian (hu) Bash		46.7373
3	Catalan (ca) Bash		41.8658
4	Chinese (zh) Bash		41.8028
5	Russian (ru) Bash		39.4268
6	Spanish (es) Bash		39.3035
7	German (de) Bash (Shell)		37.4061
8	Romanian (ro) Bash		36.1671
9	Turkish (tr) Bash		33.4315
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bash		33.2306

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		6 134 059
2	Russian (ru) Bash		1 355 233
3	Spanish (es) Bash		919 225
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		710 631
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		689 818
6	Polish (pl) Bash		548 511
7	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		474 873
8	Italian (it) Bash		358 321
9	Chinese (zh) Bash		293 797
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		268 422

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) Bash (Unix shell)		25 449
2	Russian (ru) Bash		4 016
3	German (de) Bash (Shell)		2 544
4	Japanese (ja) Bash		1 856
5	Spanish (es) Bash		1 809
6	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		1 036
7	Chinese (zh) Bash		1 023
8	Polish (pl) Bash		812
9	Italian (it) Bash		614
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		586

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bash (Unix shell)		515
2	French (fr) Bourne-Again shell		160
3	Russian (ru) Bash		102
4	Italian (it) Bash		99
5	German (de) Bash (Shell)		92
6	Spanish (es) Bash		85
7	Polish (pl) Bash		81
8	Japanese (ja) Bash		60
9	Dutch (nl) Bash		56
10	Portuguese (pt) Bash		42

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) Bash (Unix shell)		3
2	Japanese (ja) Bash		1
3	Polish (pl) Bash		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Bash		1
5	Slovak (sk) Bash		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Bash		1
7	Arabic (ar) باش (يونكس)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Bash		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Bash		0
10	Catalan (ca) Bash		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 August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information