Linus Torvalds

Quality:

Linus Torvalds - Finnish-American software engineer. This person is the 3665^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article "Linus Torvalds" in Dutch Wikipedia has 17.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Dutch Wikipedia:

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The 9923^rd most editable in Dutch Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3488^th most popular in AI.

The 3665^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article "Linus Torvalds", its content was written by 105 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia (9923^rd place) and edited by 4081 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3488^th place).

Linus Torvalds is on the 3665^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 53 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 3807 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #16 in April 2003
• Global: #70 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #5484 in February 2018
• Global: #5593 in September 2010

There are 54 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		88.3818
2	English (en) Linus Torvalds		77.1564
3	German (de) Linus Torvalds		71.071
4	Catalan (ca) Linus Torvalds		67.6104
5	Greek (el) Λίνους Τόρβαλντς		51.9946
6	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		43.2818
7	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		42.7106
8	Basque (eu) Linus Torvalds		41.5718
9	Tamil (ta) லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு		41.3042
10	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		40.7128

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linus Torvalds		10 522 030
2	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		1 789 288
3	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		1 424 363
4	German (de) Linus Torvalds		1 154 729
5	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		827 081
6	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		666 797
7	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		630 363
8	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		507 624
9	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		482 752
10	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		464 211

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) Linus Torvalds		51 181
2	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		6 246
3	German (de) Linus Torvalds		4 551
4	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		4 318
5	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		3 360
6	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		2 993
7	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		2 937
8	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		1 828
9	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		1 386
10	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		1 341

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linus Torvalds		1 027
2	German (de) Linus Torvalds		299
3	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		231
4	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		209
5	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		201
6	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		161
7	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		138
8	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		127
9	Dutch (nl) Linus Torvalds		105
10	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		104

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	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		4
2	Tamil (ta) லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு		4
3	German (de) Linus Torvalds		2
4	English (en) Linus Torvalds		2
5	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		2
6	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		1
7	Serbian (sr) Линус Торвалдс		1
8	Swedish (sv) Linus Torvalds		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Лінус Торвальдс		1
10	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		1

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

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