HAL (software)

HAL - software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction. Article “HAL (software)” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 10.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.56 points.

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

Since the creation of article “HAL (software)”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 177 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 156 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #18582 in April 2026
• Global: #62956 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #68789 in December 2019
• Global: #152109 in April 2010

There are 11 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) HAL (software)		28.6673
2	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		25.6903
3	German (de) HAL (Software)		24.492
4	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		23.781
5	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		22.2079
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		10.6989
7	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		10.0951
8	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		8.7493
9	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		8.2331
10	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		2.8729

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

The most popular language versions of the article "HAL (software)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HAL (software)		643 089
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		127 564
3	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		81 863
4	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		72 812
5	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		65 450
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		27 169
7	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		5 527
8	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		3 724
9	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		1 296
10	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		1 238

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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 "HAL (software)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HAL (software)		638
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		129
3	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		57
4	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		34
5	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		22
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		18
7	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		16
8	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		15
9	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		11
10	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HAL (software)		83
2	German (de) HAL (Software)		24
3	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		16
4	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		16
5	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		12
6	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		11
7	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		5
8	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		4
9	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		3
10	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		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 "HAL (software)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		1
2	Czech (cs) HAL (software)		0
3	German (de) HAL (Software)		0
4	English (en) HAL (software)		0
5	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		0
6	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		0
7	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		0
8	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		0
9	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		0
10	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		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 "HAL (software)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) HAL (freedesktop.org)		38
2	Ukrainian (uk) HAL (freedesktop.org)		30
3	English (en) HAL (software)		28
4	Japanese (ja) HAL (ソフトウェア)		13
5	German (de) HAL (Software)		10
6	Spanish (es) HAL (software)		10
7	Portuguese (pt) HAL (software)		9
8	Dutch (nl) HAL (software)		6
9	Norwegian (no) Hardware Abstraction Layer		5
10	Korean (ko) HAL (소프트웨어)		4

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech HAL (software)
de	German HAL (Software)
en	English HAL (software)
es	Spanish HAL (software)
ja	Japanese HAL (ソフトウェア)
ko	Korean HAL (소프트웨어)
nl	Dutch HAL (software)
no	Norwegian Hardware Abstraction Layer
pt	Portuguese HAL (software)
ru	Russian HAL (freedesktop.org)
uk	Ukrainian HAL (freedesktop.org)

Best Rank

Portuguese: #68789 12.2019

Global: #152109 04.2010

Best Rank

Portuguese: #18582 04.2026

Global: #62956 07.2008

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