Tar

Quality:

Tar - computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball". Article “Tar” in Russian Wikipedia has 46 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 38 references and 24 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Tar”, its content was written by 62 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 1124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 147 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 2216 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #4000 in June 2007
• Global: #1104 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #5867 in July 2008
• Global: #7573 in July 2008

There are 25 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) Tar (computing)		51.9193
2	Russian (ru) Tar		45.9871
3	Indonesian (id) Tar (komputasi)		34.0989
4	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		30.8613
5	Chinese (zh) Tar		26.9517
6	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		24.0066
7	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		23.9124
8	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		23.0494
9	Italian (it) Tar (software)		21.1599
10	Japanese (ja) Tar		20.8858

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		5 100 976
2	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		766 090
3	Spanish (es) Tar		720 963
4	Russian (ru) Tar		632 809
5	Japanese (ja) Tar		523 522
6	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		426 809
7	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		301 247
8	Italian (it) Tar (software)		238 422
9	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		159 372
10	Chinese (zh) Tar		149 317

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) Tar (computing)		13 771
2	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		608
3	Japanese (ja) Tar		552
4	Russian (ru) Tar		482
5	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		442
6	Spanish (es) Tar		317
7	Chinese (zh) Tar		303
8	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		186
9	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		118
10	Italian (it) Tar (software)		113

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		450
2	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		107
3	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		101
4	Russian (ru) Tar		62
5	Italian (it) Tar (software)		60
6	Japanese (ja) Tar		46
7	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		45
8	Spanish (es) Tar		40
9	Chinese (zh) Tar		39
10	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		27

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) Tar (computing)		3
2	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Tar		0
4	Catalan (ca) Tar (format de fitxers)		0
5	Czech (cs) Tar (informatika)		0
6	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		0
7	Spanish (es) Tar		0
8	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		0
9	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		0
10	Hebrew (he) Tar (פקודה)		0

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

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