Windows 8

Quality:

Windows 8 - personal computer operating system by Microsoft that was released in 2012. This software is the 14^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 32^nd most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Windows 8” in Simple English Wikipedia has 43.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.31 points.

This article has the best quality in Malay 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 2541^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 32^nd most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3142^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2703^rd most popular in AI.

The 14^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2228^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Windows 8” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2228^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Windows 8”, its content was written by 51 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2541^st place) and edited by 4608 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2703^rd place).

Windows 8 is on the 32^nd place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 98 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #25 in July 2013
• Global: #11 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1850 in July 2013
• Global: #17 in October 2012

There are 50 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	Malay (ms) Windows 8		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Windows 8		97.5988
3	English (en) Windows 8		96.4747
4	German (de) Microsoft Windows 8		88.5714
5	Italian (it) Windows 8		86.7039
6	Dutch (nl) Windows 8		80.6446
7	Chinese (zh) Windows 8		69.521
8	Japanese (ja) Microsoft Windows 8		63.5609
9	Spanish (es) Windows 8		62.1131
10	Russian (ru) Windows 8		59.302

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Windows 8		22 720 846
2	Russian (ru) Windows 8		5 944 412
3	Spanish (es) Windows 8		5 052 584
4	Japanese (ja) Microsoft Windows 8		4 789 279
5	German (de) Microsoft Windows 8		3 614 371
6	French (fr) Windows 8		1 526 969
7	Italian (it) Windows 8		1 399 854
8	Polish (pl) Windows 8		1 256 499
9	Portuguese (pt) Windows 8		1 036 122
10	Chinese (zh) Windows 8		860 605

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) Windows 8		26 707
2	Russian (ru) Windows 8		4 464
3	Japanese (ja) Microsoft Windows 8		3 798
4	Spanish (es) Windows 8		3 646
5	German (de) Microsoft Windows 8		2 360
6	French (fr) Windows 8		1 814
7	Chinese (zh) Windows 8		1 228
8	Portuguese (pt) Windows 8		1 191
9	Italian (it) Windows 8		1 009
10	Polish (pl) Windows 8		869

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Windows 8		1 183
2	German (de) Microsoft Windows 8		374
3	Russian (ru) Windows 8		321
4	French (fr) Windows 8		302
5	Spanish (es) Windows 8		218
6	Chinese (zh) Windows 8		214
7	Japanese (ja) Microsoft Windows 8		169
8	Italian (it) Windows 8		157
9	Polish (pl) Windows 8		150
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows 8		120

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) Windows 8		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Windows 8		3
3	Simple English (simple) Windows 8		2
4	Thai (th) วินโดวส์ 8		2
5	German (de) Microsoft Windows 8		1
6	Greek (el) Windows 8		1
7	Spanish (es) Windows 8		1
8	Persian (fa) ویندوز ۸		1
9	Croatian (hr) Windows 8		1
10	Korean (ko) 윈도우 8		1

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

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