Bourne Shell

Quality:

Bourne shell - command line interpreter for operating systems. This software is the 377^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 34^th most popular software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and the 21^st most popular programming language in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Bourne Shell” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 7489^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 34^th most popular in software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 377^th most popular in software.

The 104^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article “Bourne Shell”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (7489^th place) and edited by 550 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bourne shell is on the 34^th place in local ranking of software in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 377^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Bourne shell is on the 21^st place in local ranking of programming languages in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 104^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 1355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #366 in May 2006
• Global: #3083 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #1254 in October 2023
• Global: #69734 in July 2009

There are 26 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) Bourne shell		44.4645
2	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		34.2346
3	Finnish (fi) Bourne shell		28.9746
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bourne Shell		27.731
5	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		25.2865
6	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		17.1688
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		15.6093
8	Italian (it) Bourne shell		15.3221
9	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		12.7902
10	French (fr) Bourne shell		10.7661

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		1 874 513
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		225 485
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		222 340
4	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		137 212
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		116 806
6	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		64 427
7	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		53 319
8	Italian (it) Bourne shell		42 459
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		29 816
10	Korean (ko) 본 셸		26 754

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) Bourne shell		7 369
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		293
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		281
4	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		274
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		174
6	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		112
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		82
8	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		77
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		55
10	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		47

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bourne shell		169
2	French (fr) Bourne shell		43
3	Italian (it) Bourne shell		39
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		37
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		32
6	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		29
7	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		27
8	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		21
9	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		21
10	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		14

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	English (en) Bourne shell		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Bourne shell		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Bourne shell		0
4	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		0
5	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		0
6	Danish (da) Bourne shell		0
7	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		0
9	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		0
10	Persian (fa) Bourne shell		0

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

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