Linux

Quality:

Article “Linux” in Simple English Wikipedia has 75.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.97 points.

This article has the best quality in Finnish 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 1402^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 438^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 841^st most popular in all topics.

The 160^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1760^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 637^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5466^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1028^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Linux” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (637^th place) and written by 62 authors in all languages (1028^th place).

Since the creation of article “Linux”, its content was written by 122 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (438^th place) and edited by 11125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (160^th place).

The article is cited 440 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6031^st place) and cited 73810 times in all languages (2327^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in April 2004
• Global: #5 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #60 in December 2025
• Global: #328 in January 2015

There are 53 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	Finnish (fi) Linux		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Linux		97.1429
3	Vietnamese (vi) Linux		96.2219
4	English (en) Linux		93.9398
5	Korean (ko) 리눅스		90.0612
6	Indonesian (id) Linux		86.1345
7	Serbian (sr) Linux		84.3999
8	German (de) Linux		83.8675
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Linux		82.8344
10	Chinese (zh) Linux		77.7623

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linux		44 607 132
2	Russian (ru) Linux		9 748 828
3	German (de) Linux		7 428 643
4	Japanese (ja) Linux		6 648 867
5	French (fr) Linux		6 068 477
6	Portuguese (pt) Linux		4 900 829
7	Chinese (zh) Linux		3 311 856
8	Polish (pl) Linux		2 815 585
9	Italian (it) Linux		2 699 885
10	Indonesian (id) Linux		2 383 551

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) Linux		76 342
2	Russian (ru) Linux		11 393
3	German (de) Linux		10 937
4	French (fr) Linux		9 502
5	Japanese (ja) Linux		8 252
6	Chinese (zh) Linux		4 860
7	Portuguese (pt) Linux		3 516
8	Polish (pl) Linux		2 990
9	Italian (it) Linux		2 516
10	Persian (fa) لینوکس		1 663

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linux		3 153
2	German (de) Linux		953
3	French (fr) Linux		812
4	Italian (it) Linux		490
5	Russian (ru) Linux		450
6	Portuguese (pt) Linux		407
7	Chinese (zh) Linux		346
8	Polish (pl) Linux		343
9	Persian (fa) لینوکس		327
10	Japanese (ja) Linux		270

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) Linux		26
2	Indonesian (id) Linux		5
3	Polish (pl) Linux		3
4	German (de) Linux		2
5	Basque (eu) Linux		2
6	French (fr) Linux		2
7	Japanese (ja) Linux		2
8	Romanian (ro) Linux		2
9	Simple English (simple) Linux		2
10	Ukrainian (uk) Linux		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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