BIOS

Quality:

BIOS - common firmware system used to initialize hardware when a computer boots. This software is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 13^th most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “BIOS” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5764^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9815^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 13^th most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6982^nd most popular in all topics.

The 7334^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “BIOS”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9815^th place) and edited by 2946 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7334^th place).

BIOS is on the 13^th place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #496 in October 2012
• Global: #532 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1796 in September 2021
• Global: #1957 in October 2009

There are 50 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, 2025 (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) BIOS		77.4866
2	Estonian (et) Baasvahetussüsteem		52.3533
3	German (de) BIOS		42.1957
4	Esperanto (eo) BIOS		37.9649
5	Chinese (zh) BIOS		37.665
6	Catalan (ca) BIOS		37.3531
7	Czech (cs) BIOS		30.7593
8	Russian (ru) BIOS		30.2946
9	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		30.1719
10	Ukrainian (uk) BIOS		29.6852

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BIOS		10 927 744
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		6 050 259
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		2 598 785
4	Polish (pl) BIOS		1 830 992
5	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 459 994
6	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		1 376 326
7	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 215 612
8	German (de) BIOS		1 150 268
9	Italian (it) BIOS		1 018 200
10	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 017 101

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) BIOS		17 683
2	Russian (ru) BIOS		3 445
3	Spanish (es) BIOS		1 993
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		1 767
5	Japanese (ja) Basic Input/Output System		1 558
6	Chinese (zh) BIOS		1 438
7	German (de) BIOS		1 415
8	Italian (it) BIOS		829
9	Polish (pl) BIOS		761
10	Simple English (simple) BIOS		630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BIOS		728
2	Spanish (es) BIOS		210
3	Polish (pl) BIOS		165
4	French (fr) BIOS (informatique)		153
5	Russian (ru) BIOS		130
6	Italian (it) BIOS		125
7	Portuguese (pt) BIOS		106
8	Dutch (nl) Basic input/output system		98
9	Chinese (zh) BIOS		80
10	Czech (cs) BIOS		76

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	Vietnamese (vi) BIOS		2
2	Czech (cs) BIOS		1
3	Russian (ru) BIOS		1
4	Tamil (ta) பயாஸ்		1
5	Arabic (ar) النظام الأساسي للإدخال والإخراج		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) BIOS		0
7	Belarusian (be) BIOS		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) BIOS		0
9	Catalan (ca) BIOS		0
10	Danish (da) BIOS		0

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

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