Null device

Quality:

/dev/null - special computer file that discards all writes. Article “Null device” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Null device”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 296 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #227 in July 2010
• Global: #6332 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6072 in November 2014
• Global: #26853 in August 2014

There are 27 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	Slovak (sk) Nulové zariadenie		30.4472
2	English (en) Null device		30.1827
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết bị rỗng		27.59
4	Simple English (simple) Null device		24.9194
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		18.9753
6	Indonesian (id) /dev/null		17.6521
7	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		16.6344
8	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		16.2608
9	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		15.1276
10	Serbian (sr) /dev/null		15.0998

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Null device		1 644 839
2	German (de) /dev/null		164 380
3	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		141 096
4	Russian (ru) /dev/null		111 058
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		78 493
6	Polish (pl) /dev/null		72 025
7	Spanish (es) /dev/null		58 068
8	Italian (it) /dev/null		39 407
9	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		35 558
10	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		27 479

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) Null device		1 291
2	Russian (ru) /dev/null		102
3	Spanish (es) /dev/null		84
4	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		60
5	German (de) /dev/null		55
6	French (fr) Périphérique nul		54
7	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		45
8	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		31
9	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		30
10	Korean (ko) 널 장치		20

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Null device		167
2	German (de) /dev/null		85
3	French (fr) Périphérique nul		56
4	Russian (ru) /dev/null		48
5	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		31
6	Italian (it) /dev/null		26
7	Polish (pl) /dev/null		19
8	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		16
9	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		16
10	Arabic (ar) /dev/null		13

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	Catalan (ca) /dev/null		1
2	Arabic (ar) /dev/null		0
3	Czech (cs) /dev/null		0
4	German (de) /dev/null		0
5	English (en) Null device		0
6	Spanish (es) /dev/null		0
7	Persian (fa) افزاره هیچ		0
8	Finnish (fi) /dev/null		0
9	French (fr) Périphérique nul		0
10	Hungarian (hu) /dev/null		0

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

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