Free software

Quality:

Free software - software distributed under terms that allow users to freely run, study, change and distribute it and modified versions. Article “Free software” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 6 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 4428^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3443^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5198^th most popular in all topics.

The 2048^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5476^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2234^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6507^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Free software” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2234^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6507^th place).

Since the creation of article “Free software”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3443^rd place) and edited by 5042 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2048^th place).

The article is cited 125 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 31698 times in all languages (5358^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #260 in July 2017
• Global: #15 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in August 2011
• Global: #34 in August 2011

There are 51 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) Free software		86.1252
2	German (de) Freie Software		85.249
3	French (fr) Logiciel libre		72.4757
4	Basque (eu) Software libre		70.3422
5	Spanish (es) Software libre		67.0648
6	Chinese (zh) 自由软件		66.6661
7	Indonesian (id) Perangkat lunak bebas		57.3993
8	Turkish (tr) Özgür yazılım		55.2465
9	Italian (it) Software libero		54.2461
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phần mềm tự do		52.8535

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free software		14 759 214
2	Spanish (es) Software libre		10 137 180
3	French (fr) Logiciel libre		2 949 522
4	Portuguese (pt) Software livre		2 065 743
5	Russian (ru) Свободное программное обеспечение		1 962 047
6	German (de) Freie Software		1 499 448
7	Italian (it) Software libero		1 265 438
8	Polish (pl) Wolne oprogramowanie		615 266
9	Chinese (zh) 自由软件		607 611
10	Japanese (ja) 自由ソフトウェア		554 241

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) Free software		16 279
2	French (fr) Logiciel libre		3 497
3	Spanish (es) Software libre		2 895
4	German (de) Freie Software		2 237
5	Russian (ru) Свободное программное обеспечение		1 863
6	Chinese (zh) 自由软件		1 257
7	Italian (it) Software libero		928
8	Portuguese (pt) Software livre		759
9	Japanese (ja) 自由ソフトウェア		695
10	Turkish (tr) Özgür yazılım		413

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Free software		1 052
2	Spanish (es) Software libre		544
3	French (fr) Logiciel libre		467
4	German (de) Freie Software		452
5	Portuguese (pt) Software livre		235
6	Italian (it) Software libero		207
7	Russian (ru) Свободное программное обеспечение		207
8	Chinese (zh) 自由软件		125
9	Dutch (nl) Vrije software		95
10	Polish (pl) Wolne oprogramowanie		93

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) Free software		13
2	Spanish (es) Software libre		2
3	Chinese (zh) 自由软件		2
4	Arabic (ar) برمجيات حرة		1
5	Czech (cs) Svobodný software		1
6	Danish (da) Fri software		1
7	Persian (fa) نرم‌افزار آزاد		1
8	Croatian (hr) Slobodna programska podrška		1
9	Simple English (simple) Free software		1
10	Slovak (sk) Slobodný softvér		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information