MS-DOS Shell

DOS Shell - file manager in MS-DOS and PC DOS operating systems. This software is the 1286^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 856^th most popular software in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “MS-DOS Shell” in Japanese Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.18 points.

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

Since the creation of article “MS-DOS Shell”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 198 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

DOS Shell is on the 856^th place in local ranking of software in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 1286^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #17108 in February 2006
• Global: #24561 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #187264 in April 2009
• Global: #258043 in July 2009

There are 12 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	Catalan (ca) Intèrpret de comandes de DOS		20.7755
2	English (en) DOS Shell		16.1513
3	German (de) DOS Shell		14.5181
4	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		11.5998
5	Persian (fa) شل داس		6.1948
6	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		4.902
7	Russian (ru) DOS Shell		4.0079
8	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		3.441
9	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		2.2812
10	Hindi (hi) डॉस शेल		1.6554

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

The most popular language versions of the article "MS-DOS Shell" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) DOS Shell		351 703
2	German (de) DOS Shell		57 097
3	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		50 868
4	Russian (ru) DOS Shell		46 735
5	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		38 217
6	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		29 182
7	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		13 434
8	Persian (fa) شل داس		3 917
9	Croatian (hr) DOS Shell		2 935
10	Hindi (hi) डॉस शेल		386

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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 "MS-DOS Shell" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) DOS Shell		934
2	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		109
3	Russian (ru) DOS Shell		89
4	German (de) DOS Shell		87
5	Persian (fa) شل داس		66
6	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		57
7	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		26
8	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		21
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) DOS Shell		7
10	Catalan (ca) Intèrpret de comandes de DOS		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) DOS Shell		64
2	German (de) DOS Shell		47
3	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		20
4	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		18
5	Russian (ru) DOS Shell		18
6	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		10
7	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		7
8	Croatian (hr) DOS Shell		6
9	Persian (fa) شل داس		3
10	Catalan (ca) Intèrpret de comandes de DOS		2

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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 "MS-DOS Shell" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Intèrpret de comandes de DOS		0
2	German (de) DOS Shell		0
3	English (en) DOS Shell		0
4	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		0
5	Persian (fa) شل داس		0
6	Hindi (hi) डॉस शेल		0
7	Croatian (hr) DOS Shell		0
8	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		0
9	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		0
10	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		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 "MS-DOS Shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) DOS Shell		67
2	Russian (ru) DOS Shell		58
3	Korean (ko) 도스 셸		27
4	Polish (pl) DOS Shell		24
5	Persian (fa) شل داس		15
6	Japanese (ja) MS-DOS Shell		14
7	German (de) DOS Shell		11
8	Spanish (es) DOS Shell		3
9	Catalan (ca) Intèrpret de comandes de DOS		1
10	Hindi (hi) डॉस शेल		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Intèrpret de comandes de DOS
de	German DOS Shell
en	English DOS Shell
es	Spanish DOS Shell
fa	Persian شل داس
hi	Hindi डॉस शेल
hr	Croatian DOS Shell
ja	Japanese MS-DOS Shell
ko	Korean 도스 셸
pl	Polish DOS Shell
ru	Russian DOS Shell
zhminnan	Min Nan DOS Shell

Best Rank

Japanese: #187264 04.2009

Global: #258043 07.2009

Best Rank

Japanese: #17108 02.2006

Global: #24561 03.2005

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