Less (Unix)

Quality:

Less - command line tool to view text files. Article "Less (Unix)" in Italian Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article "Less (Unix)", its content was written by 24 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 385 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 129 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 1723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Italian): #43508 in October 2012
  • Global: #28856 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Italian): #97448 in July 2009
  • Global: #65727 in September 2014

There are 21 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
1Arabic (ar)
ليس (أمر يونكس)
29.1932
2German (de)
Less (Unix)
26.6333
3English (en)
Less (Unix)
25.8893
4Chinese (zh)
Less (Unix)
22.7764
5Persian (fa)
Less
19.2171
6Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
18.0972
7Russian (ru)
Less
17.6834
8Korean (ko)
Less (유닉스)
16.8898
9French (fr)
Less (Unix)
16.5349
10Japanese (ja)
Less
13.5955
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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 "Less (Unix)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
1 259 592
2Russian (ru)
Less
116 928
3Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
91 090
4Spanish (es)
Less
70 281
5French (fr)
Less (Unix)
67 991
6Japanese (ja)
Less
59 270
7Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
43 299
8German (de)
Less (Unix)
26 232
9Korean (ko)
Less (유닉스)
14 505
10Hungarian (hu)
Less (Unix)
11 056
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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 "Less (Unix)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
1 443
2French (fr)
Less (Unix)
115
3Japanese (ja)
Less
88
4German (de)
Less (Unix)
85
5Chinese (zh)
Less (Unix)
67
6Russian (ru)
Less
61
7Portuguese (pt)
Less (Unix)
37
8Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
35
9Spanish (es)
Less
34
10Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
31
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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 "Less (Unix)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Less (Unix)
87
2German (de)
Less (Unix)
62
3French (fr)
Less (Unix)
36
4Russian (ru)
Less
28
5Japanese (ja)
Less
26
6Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
24
7Danish (da)
Less
19
8Hungarian (hu)
Less (Unix)
16
9Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
15
10Spanish (es)
Less
12
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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 "Less (Unix)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Less (Unix)
1
2Danish (da)
Less
1
3Arabic (ar)
ليس (أمر يونكس)
0
4Belarusian (be)
Less
0
5German (de)
Less (Unix)
0
6English (en)
Less (Unix)
0
7Spanish (es)
Less
0
8Persian (fa)
Less
0
9French (fr)
Less (Unix)
0
10Hebrew (he)
Less (יוניקס)
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 "Less (Unix)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Less (Unix)
178
2Korean (ko)
Less (유닉스)
145
3Polish (pl)
Less (Unix)
130
4Italian (it)
Less (Unix)
129
5Japanese (ja)
Less
126
6Czech (cs)
Less (Unix)
120
7Hungarian (hu)
Less (Unix)
119
8Ukrainian (uk)
Less
118
9Portuguese (pt)
Less (Unix)
111
10Chinese (zh)
Less (Unix)
110
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
Italian:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ليس (أمر يونكس)
beBelarusian
Less
csCzech
Less (Unix)
daDanish
Less
deGerman
Less (Unix)
enEnglish
Less (Unix)
esSpanish
Less
faPersian
Less
frFrench
Less (Unix)
heHebrew
Less (יוניקס)
huHungarian
Less (Unix)
itItalian
Less (Unix)
jaJapanese
Less
kaGeorgian
Less
koKorean
Less (유닉스)
plPolish
Less (Unix)
ptPortuguese
Less (Unix)
roRomanian
Less (Unix)
ruRussian
Less
ukUkrainian
Less
zhChinese
Less (Unix)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#97448
07.2009
Global:
#65727
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Italian:
#43508
10.2012
Global:
#28856
12.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Less from Wikipedia articles about Less, Terminal pager, More, Man page and Cat. Whereas reading the article about Less people most often go to Wikipedia articles on More, Most, Terminal pager, Pg and Cat.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ru: Less
es: Less
ja: Less
uk: Less
fa: Less
ka: Less
da: Less
be: Less

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