Initrd

Initrd - temporary root file system loaded during early boot of Linux operating system. This software is the 502^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 883^rd most popular software in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “Initrd” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 13.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.69 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 “Initrd”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 343 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Initrd is on the 883^rd place in local ranking of software in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 502^nd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 717 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #17599 in September 2017
• Global: #58365 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #209493 in February 2020
• Global: #101484 in December 2008

There are 14 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) Initial ramdisk		32.0506
2	Korean (ko) Initrd		27.4363
3	German (de) Initrd		24.4377
4	French (fr) Initrd		18.2798
5	Chinese (zh) Initrd		18.1026
6	Ukrainian (uk) Initrd		13.7855
7	Czech (cs) Initrd		13.4899
8	Japanese (ja) Initrd		13.4253
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		13.0502
10	Spanish (es) Initrd		9.5605

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Initrd" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		1 405 293
2	Russian (ru) Initrd		122 213
3	German (de) Initrd		106 822
4	French (fr) Initrd		87 349
5	Japanese (ja) Initrd		80 092
6	Spanish (es) Initrd		74 830
7	Chinese (zh) Initrd		62 308
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		37 239
9	Italian (it) Initrd		34 910
10	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		7 670

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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 "Initrd" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		1 924
2	French (fr) Initrd		133
3	German (de) Initrd		117
4	Chinese (zh) Initrd		108
5	Russian (ru) Initrd		105
6	Japanese (ja) Initrd		90
7	Spanish (es) Initrd		49
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		30
9	Italian (it) Initrd		25
10	Korean (ko) Initrd		12

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		146
2	German (de) Initrd		35
3	Italian (it) Initrd		29
4	French (fr) Initrd		27
5	Chinese (zh) Initrd		26
6	Spanish (es) Initrd		21
7	Russian (ru) Initrd		15
8	Polish (pl) Initrd		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		10
10	Japanese (ja) Initrd		9

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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 "Initrd" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		1
2	Czech (cs) Initrd		0
3	German (de) Initrd		0
4	Spanish (es) Initrd		0
5	French (fr) Initrd		0
6	Italian (it) Initrd		0
7	Japanese (ja) Initrd		0
8	Korean (ko) Initrd		0
9	Polish (pl) Initrd		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		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 "Initrd" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Initial ramdisk		360
2	Japanese (ja) Initrd		100
3	Korean (ko) Initrd		68
4	Chinese (zh) Initrd		56
5	French (fr) Initrd		30
6	Russian (ru) Initrd		22
7	Ukrainian (uk) Initrd		21
8	Italian (it) Initrd		16
9	Portuguese (pt) Initrd		11
10	German (de) Initrd		10

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Initrd
de	German Initrd
en	English Initial ramdisk
es	Spanish Initrd
fr	French Initrd
it	Italian Initrd
ja	Japanese Initrd
ko	Korean Initrd
pl	Polish Initrd
pt	Portuguese Initrd
ru	Russian Initrd
sv	Swedish Initrd
uk	Ukrainian Initrd
zh	Chinese Initrd

Best Rank

Portuguese: #209493 02.2020

Global: #101484 12.2008

Best Rank

Portuguese: #17599 09.2017

Global: #58365 12.2009

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