Tar (Linux tool)

Tar - computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball". Article “Tar (Linux tool)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Tar (Linux tool)”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2216 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #10738 in November 2025
• Global: #1104 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #51525 in November 2023
• Global: #7573 in July 2008

There are 25 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) Tar (computing)		51.9193
2	Russian (ru) Tar		45.9871
3	Indonesian (id) Tar (komputasi)		34.0989
4	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		30.8613
5	Chinese (zh) Tar		26.9517
6	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		24.0066
7	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		23.9124
8	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		23.0494
9	Italian (it) Tar (software)		21.1599
10	Japanese (ja) Tar		20.8858

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tar (Linux tool)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		5 100 976
2	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		766 090
3	Spanish (es) Tar		720 963
4	Russian (ru) Tar		632 809
5	Japanese (ja) Tar		523 522
6	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		426 809
7	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		301 247
8	Italian (it) Tar (software)		238 422
9	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		159 372
10	Chinese (zh) Tar		149 317

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Tar (Linux tool)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		13 771
2	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		608
3	Japanese (ja) Tar		552
4	Russian (ru) Tar		482
5	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		442
6	Spanish (es) Tar		317
7	Chinese (zh) Tar		303
8	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		186
9	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		118
10	Italian (it) Tar (software)		113

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

Language versions of the article "Tar (Linux tool)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		450
2	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		107
3	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		101
4	Russian (ru) Tar		62
5	Italian (it) Tar (software)		60
6	Japanese (ja) Tar		46
7	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		45
8	Spanish (es) Tar		40
9	Chinese (zh) Tar		39
10	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		27

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

Language versions of the article "Tar (Linux tool)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		3
2	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Tar		0
4	Catalan (ca) Tar (format de fitxers)		0
5	Czech (cs) Tar (informatika)		0
6	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		0
7	Spanish (es) Tar		0
8	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		0
9	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		0
10	Hebrew (he) Tar (פקודה)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Tar (Linux tool)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		407
2	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		198
3	Chinese (zh) Tar		183
4	Italian (it) Tar (software)		181
5	Japanese (ja) Tar		160
6	Korean (ko) Tar (파일 포맷)		155
7	Russian (ru) Tar		147
8	Ukrainian (uk) Tar		105
9	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		97
10	Spanish (es) Tar		95

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تار (حوسبة)
bg	Bulgarian Tar
ca	Catalan Tar (format de fitxers)
cs	Czech Tar (informatika)
de	German Tar (Packprogramm)
en	English Tar (computing)
es	Spanish Tar
fi	Finnish Tar (Unix)
fr	French Tar (informatique)
he	Hebrew Tar (פקודה)
id	Indonesian Tar (komputasi)
it	Italian Tar (software)
ja	Japanese Tar
ko	Korean Tar (파일 포맷)
nl	Dutch Tar (informatica)
no	Norwegian Tar
pl	Polish Tar (informatyka)
pt	Portuguese Tar (computação)
ru	Russian Tar
simple	Simple English Tar (Linux tool)
sk	Slovak Tar (formát súboru)
sv	Swedish Tar
tr	Turkish TAR (dosya biçimi)
uk	Ukrainian Tar
zh	Chinese Tar

Best Rank

Simple English: #51525 11.2023

Global: #7573 07.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #10738 11.2025

Global: #1104 07.2002

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