Kernel (computer science)

Quality:

Kernel - core of a computer operating system. Article "Kernel (computer science)" in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 510^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3679^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8058^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2767^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Kernel (computer science)", its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3679^th place) and edited by 2814 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8058^th place).

The article is cited 228 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14640 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #147 in January 2019
• Global: #209 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in March 2014
• Global: #6037 in September 2008

There are 49 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	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		77.272
2	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		77.0892
3	Finnish (fi) Käyttöjärjestelmän ydin		72.9264
4	Japanese (ja) カーネル		52.5862
5	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		43.5098
6	Chinese (zh) 内核		33.2457
7	Hebrew (he) גרעין (מערכות הפעלה)		31.1737
8	Turkish (tr) Çekirdek (bilgisayar bilimi)		30.6183
9	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		29.5641
10	Italian (it) Kernel		28.1366

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		7 425 290
2	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		2 599 392
3	Japanese (ja) カーネル		1 594 770
4	Italian (it) Kernel		1 430 487
5	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		1 154 954
6	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		1 154 752
7	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		1 065 662
8	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		933 041
9	Polish (pl) Jądro systemu operacyjnego		554 782
10	Simple English (simple) Kernel (computer science)		498 253

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) Kernel (operating system)		24 981
2	Japanese (ja) カーネル		3 504
3	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		2 398
4	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		1 986
5	Italian (it) Kernel		1 646
6	Simple English (simple) Kernel (computer science)		1 622
7	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		1 553
8	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		1 506
9	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		880
10	Chinese (zh) 内核		858

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kernel (operating system)		616
2	French (fr) Noyau de système d'exploitation		214
3	Italian (it) Kernel		183
4	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		175
5	Spanish (es) Núcleo (informática)		115
6	Russian (ru) Ядро операционной системы		103
7	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		87
8	Dutch (nl) Kernel		81
9	Hebrew (he) גרעין (מערכות הפעלה)		79
10	Japanese (ja) カーネル		79

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) Kernel (operating system)		3
2	German (de) Kernel (Betriebssystem)		1
3	Persian (fa) هسته (سیستم‌عامل)		1
4	Hebrew (he) גרעין (מערכות הפעלה)		1
5	Korean (ko) 커널 (컴퓨팅)		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Núcleo (sistema operacional)		1
7	Arabic (ar) نواة (نظم تشغيل)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Nüvə (kompüter)		0
9	Belarusian (be) Ядро аперацыйнай сістэмы		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ядро (операционна система)		0

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

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