Motd

Motd - small file shown to every user of the system after login. Article “Motd” in Italian Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 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 “Motd”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 115 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 17 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #17005 in September 2005
• Global: #62093 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #185792 in January 2008
• Global: #571342 in March 2008

There are 8 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, 2026 (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) Message of the day		30.1737
2	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		24.0469
3	Italian (it) Motd		23.5971
4	German (de) Message of the Day		17.4797
5	Chinese (zh) Motd		5.0774
6	French (fr) Message of the Day		3.1415
7	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		2.0892
8	Polish (pl) MOTD		0.2165

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Motd" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Message of the day		224 246
2	German (de) Message of the Day		59 561
3	French (fr) Message of the Day		23 674
4	Polish (pl) MOTD		14 811
5	Italian (it) Motd		12 547
6	Chinese (zh) Motd		6 729
7	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		2 711
8	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		1 029

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Motd" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Message of the day		515
2	German (de) Message of the Day		61
3	Chinese (zh) Motd		40
4	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		32
5	French (fr) Message of the Day		17
6	Italian (it) Motd		13
7	Polish (pl) MOTD		4
8	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		2

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

Language versions of the article "Motd" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Message of the Day		28
2	English (en) Message of the day		26
3	French (fr) Message of the Day		21
4	Italian (it) Motd		21
5	Polish (pl) MOTD		12
6	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		4
7	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		2
8	Chinese (zh) Motd		1

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

Language versions of the article "Motd" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Message of the Day		0
2	English (en) Message of the day		0
3	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		0
4	French (fr) Message of the Day		0
5	Italian (it) Motd		0
6	Polish (pl) MOTD		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		0
8	Chinese (zh) Motd		0

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

Language versions of the article "Motd" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Message of the day		8
2	German (de) Message of the Day		4
3	French (fr) Message of the Day		3
4	Italian (it) Motd		2
5	Persian (fa) پیغام روز (یونیکس)		0
6	Polish (pl) MOTD		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Motd (Unix)		0
8	Chinese (zh) Motd		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Message of the Day
en	English Message of the day
fa	Persian پیغام روز (یونیکس)
fr	French Message of the Day
it	Italian Motd
pl	Polish MOTD
pt	Portuguese Motd (Unix)
zh	Chinese Motd

Best Rank

Italian: #185792 01.2008

Global: #571342 03.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #17005 09.2005

Global: #62093 10.2005

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