Null device

Quality:

/dev/null - special computer file that discards all writes. Article “Null device” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 607 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #227 in July 2010
• Global: #6333 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6098 in November 2014
• Global: #27564 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, 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	Slovak (sk) Nulové zariadenie		30.1238
2	English (en) Null device		29.8741
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết bị rỗng		27.5664
4	Simple English (simple) Null device		24.6417
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		18.9054
6	Indonesian (id) Perangkat null		17.6027
7	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		16.595
8	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		16.219
9	Serbian (sr) /dev/null		15.129
10	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		15.05

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Null device		1 670 723
2	German (de) /dev/null		164 845
3	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		141 794
4	Russian (ru) /dev/null		111 805
5	French (fr) Périphérique nul		79 390
6	Polish (pl) /dev/null		72 150
7	Spanish (es) /dev/null		58 094
8	Italian (it) /dev/null		39 657
9	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		35 785
10	Finnish (fi) /dev/null		25 693

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		4 042
2	Dutch (nl) /dev/null		72
3	French (fr) Périphérique nul		71
4	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		52
5	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		32
6	Russian (ru) /dev/null		25
7	Italian (it) /dev/null		21
8	German (de) /dev/null		19
9	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo nulo		15
10	Simple English (simple) Null device		13

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		169
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	Chinese (zh) /dev/null		17
9	Japanese (ja) /dev/null		16
10	Spanish (es) /dev/null		15

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	Arabic (ar) /dev/null		0
2	Catalan (ca) /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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