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Brian Kernighan

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Brian Kernighan - Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system. Article “Brian Kernighan” in Italian Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Brian Kernighan”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 791 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 32 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 896 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Italian): #61 in January 2003
  • Global: #1410 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Italian): #20494 in October 2011
  • Global: #24165 in October 2011

There are 31 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)
Brian Kernighan
44.5246
2Turkish (tr)
Brian Kernighan
34.4838
3Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
30.1026
4Polish (pl)
Brian Kernighan
28.8756
5Hebrew (he)
בריאן קרניהאן
27.7153
6Swedish (sv)
Brian Kernighan
26.5918
7Finnish (fi)
Brian Kernighan
25.9837
8Serbian (sr)
Брајан Керниган
25.9354
9Vietnamese (vi)
Brian Kernighan
25.1622
10Arabic (ar)
براين كيرنيغان
24.8823
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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 "Brian Kernighan" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Brian Kernighan
1 622 094
2Japanese (ja)
ブライアン・カーニハン
153 852
3Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
150 391
4Spanish (es)
Brian Kernighan
115 901
5German (de)
Brian W. Kernighan
108 019
6French (fr)
Brian Kernighan
87 280
7Italian (it)
Brian Kernighan
52 412
8Polish (pl)
Brian Kernighan
52 073
9Portuguese (pt)
Brian Kernighan
39 896
10Chinese (zh)
布萊恩·克尼漢
37 707
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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 "Brian Kernighan" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Brian Kernighan
7 056
2Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
515
3Japanese (ja)
ブライアン・カーニハン
448
4German (de)
Brian W. Kernighan
324
5Chinese (zh)
布萊恩·克尼漢
256
6French (fr)
Brian Kernighan
224
7Spanish (es)
Brian Kernighan
214
8Italian (it)
Brian Kernighan
157
9Polish (pl)
Brian Kernighan
109
10Portuguese (pt)
Brian Kernighan
98
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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 "Brian Kernighan" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Brian Kernighan
220
2German (de)
Brian W. Kernighan
75
3French (fr)
Brian Kernighan
74
4Italian (it)
Brian Kernighan
54
5Japanese (ja)
ブライアン・カーニハン
43
6Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
42
7Dutch (nl)
Brian Kernighan
30
8Polish (pl)
Brian Kernighan
24
9Hebrew (he)
בריאן קרניהאן
22
10Spanish (es)
Brian Kernighan
21
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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 "Brian Kernighan" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
2
2German (de)
Brian W. Kernighan
1
3Japanese (ja)
ブライアン・カーニハン
1
4Arabic (ar)
براين كيرنيغان
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Breyn Kerniqan
0
6Belarusian (be)
Браян Керніган
0
7Catalan (ca)
Brian Kernighan
0
8Czech (cs)
Brian Kernighan
0
9English (en)
Brian Kernighan
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Brian Kernighan
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 "Brian Kernighan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Brian Kernighan
210
2German (de)
Brian W. Kernighan
51
3Polish (pl)
Brian Kernighan
51
4Russian (ru)
Керниган, Брайан
50
5Japanese (ja)
ブライアン・カーニハン
49
6Ukrainian (uk)
Браян Керніган
46
7French (fr)
Brian Kernighan
44
8Chinese (zh)
布萊恩·克尼漢
44
9Spanish (es)
Brian Kernighan
38
10Italian (it)
Brian Kernighan
32
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
براين كيرنيغان
azAzerbaijani
Breyn Kerniqan
beBelarusian
Браян Керніган
caCatalan
Brian Kernighan
csCzech
Brian Kernighan
deGerman
Brian W. Kernighan
enEnglish
Brian Kernighan
eoEsperanto
Brian Kernighan
esSpanish
Brian Kernighan
faPersian
برایان کرنیگان
fiFinnish
Brian Kernighan
frFrench
Brian Kernighan
heHebrew
בריאן קרניהאן
huHungarian
Brian Kernighan
idIndonesian
Brian Kernighan
itItalian
Brian Kernighan
jaJapanese
ブライアン・カーニハン
koKorean
브라이언 커니핸
nlDutch
Brian Kernighan
noNorwegian
Brian Kernighan
plPolish
Brian Kernighan
ptPortuguese
Brian Kernighan
ruRussian
Керниган, Брайан
shSerbo-Croatian
Brian Kernighan
skSlovak
Brian Kernighan
srSerbian
Брајан Керниган
svSwedish
Brian Kernighan
trTurkish
Brian Kernighan
ukUkrainian
Браян Керніган
viVietnamese
Brian Kernighan
zhChinese
布萊恩·克尼漢

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#20494
10.2011
Global:
#24165
10.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#61
01.2003
Global:
#1410
09.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Brian Kernighan from Wikipedia articles about Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Unix, Ken Thompson and C. Whereas reading the article about Brian Kernighan people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Dennis M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Ken Thompson, AWK and Go.

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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