Device file

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Device file

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Device file - interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file; e.g. /dev/* in Unix-like systems; CON, PRN, NUL in DOS/Windows. Article “Device file” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Device file”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 491 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2317 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #11442 in July 2020
  • Global: #4172 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #33905 in July 2020
  • Global: #57798 in January 2015

There are 18 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Device file
58.9977
2Vietnamese (vi)
Tập tin thiết bị
43.3515
3Portuguese (pt)
Arquivo de dispositivo
23.4912
4Russian (ru)
Специальный файл устройства
18.3285
5Chinese (zh)
设备文件系统
17.8496
6Polish (pl)
Plik urządzenia
14.965
7Indonesian (id)
Berkas peranti
14.4468
8Korean (ko)
장치 파일
14.0088
9Japanese (ja)
デバイスファイル
13.1442
10Spanish (es)
Archivo de dispositivo
13.0368
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Device file" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Device file
2 179 418
2Japanese (ja)
デバイスファイル
268 133
3German (de)
Gerätedatei
171 273
4Russian (ru)
Специальный файл устройства
76 239
5Spanish (es)
Archivo de dispositivo
68 470
6Chinese (zh)
设备文件系统
33 558
7Polish (pl)
Plik urządzenia
33 335
8Korean (ko)
장치 파일
27 470
9Portuguese (pt)
Arquivo de dispositivo
26 650
10Czech (cs)
Zařízení (soubor)
16 305
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Device file" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Device file
6 128
2Japanese (ja)
デバイスファイル
232
3Russian (ru)
Специальный файл устройства
193
4German (de)
Gerätedatei
174
5Chinese (zh)
设备文件系统
144
6Spanish (es)
Archivo de dispositivo
56
7Portuguese (pt)
Arquivo de dispositivo
39
8Czech (cs)
Zařízení (soubor)
34
9French (fr)
Fichier spécial
34
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tập tin thiết bị
34
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Device file" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Device file
220
2German (de)
Gerätedatei
96
3Japanese (ja)
デバイスファイル
25
4Russian (ru)
Специальный файл устройства
25
5Chinese (zh)
设备文件系统
23
6Czech (cs)
Zařízení (soubor)
17
7Spanish (es)
Archivo de dispositivo
16
8Polish (pl)
Plik urządzenia
16
9Portuguese (pt)
Arquivo de dispositivo
11
10Persian (fa)
فایل دستگاهی
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Device file" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Zařízení (soubor)
1
2Polish (pl)
Plik urządzenia
1
3Catalan (ca)
Fitxer dispositiu
0
4German (de)
Gerätedatei
0
5English (en)
Device file
0
6Spanish (es)
Archivo de dispositivo
0
7Persian (fa)
فایل دستگاهی
0
8French (fr)
Fichier spécial
0
9Indonesian (id)
Berkas peranti
0
10Italian (it)
Dispositivo a caratteri
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Device file" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Device file
835
2Russian (ru)
Специальный файл устройства
291
3Persian (fa)
فایل دستگاهی
287
4Chinese (zh)
设备文件系统
204
5Korean (ko)
장치 파일
202
6Japanese (ja)
デバイスファイル
147
7Portuguese (pt)
Arquivo de dispositivo
80
8Catalan (ca)
Fitxer dispositiu
67
9German (de)
Gerätedatei
61
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tập tin thiết bị
51
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Fitxer dispositiu
csCzech
Zařízení (soubor)
deGerman
Gerätedatei
enEnglish
Device file
esSpanish
Archivo de dispositivo
faPersian
فایل دستگاهی
frFrench
Fichier spécial
idIndonesian
Berkas peranti
itItalian
Dispositivo a caratteri
jaJapanese
デバイスファイル
koKorean
장치 파일
noNorwegian
Utstyrsfil
plPolish
Plik urządzenia
ptPortuguese
Arquivo de dispositivo
ruRussian
Специальный файл устройства
simpleSimple English
Device file
viVietnamese
Tập tin thiết bị
zhChinese
设备文件系统

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#33905
07.2020
Global:
#57798
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#11442
07.2020
Global:
#4172
06.2002

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Device file from Wikipedia articles about Loop device, Storage area network, /dev/null, Udev and Block-level storage. Whereas reading the article about Device file people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Device driver, Udev, Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority, System call and DOS.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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