Daemon (Unix)

Quality:

Daemon - computer program that runs persistently as a background process to provide a service. Article “Daemon (Unix)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 12.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Daemon (Unix)”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 1167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 2168 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #3643 in June 2011
• Global: #1787 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #30860 in May 2008
• Global: #1085 in September 2014

There are 36 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) Daemon (computing)		37.9271
2	Finnish (fi) Daemon		30.6177
3	German (de) Daemon		30.1015
4	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		26.4512
5	Romanian (ro) Daemon		24.1962
6	Arabic (ar) برنامج خفي		23.8506
7	Serbian (sr) Daemon		23.1024
8	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		22.6469
9	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		17.7418
10	Portuguese (pt) Daemon (computação)		17.5402

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		7 654 748
2	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		650 365
3	German (de) Daemon		641 423
4	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		602 380
5	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		579 035
6	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		326 099
7	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		202 312
8	Portuguese (pt) Daemon (computação)		177 897
9	Polish (pl) Demon (informatyka)		171 519
10	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		145 521

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) Daemon (computing)		14 054
2	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		1 115
3	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		1 033
4	German (de) Daemon		750
5	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		747
6	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		598
7	Chinese (zh) 守护进程		397
8	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		261
9	Polish (pl) Demon (informatyka)		244
10	Korean (ko) 데몬 (컴퓨팅)		187

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Daemon (computing)		318
2	German (de) Daemon		131
3	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		95
4	Simple English (simple) Daemon (computer software)		94
5	Spanish (es) Daemon (informática)		60
6	Italian (it) Demone (informatica)		60
7	Russian (ru) Демон (программа)		50
8	Dutch (nl) Daemon (Unix)		37
9	Japanese (ja) デーモン (ソフトウェア)		30
10	Czech (cs) Démon (software)		26

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	Arabic (ar) برنامج خفي		1
2	English (en) Daemon (computing)		1
3	Basque (eu) Daemon (informatika)		1
4	French (fr) Daemon (informatique)		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Gözlədici proqram		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Демон (информатика)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Dimoni (programa)		0
8	Czech (cs) Démon (software)		0
9	Danish (da) Daemon		0
10	German (de) Daemon		0

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

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