Z shell

Z shell - Unix shell. This software is the 414^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 357^th most popular software in Chinese Wikipedia and the 93^rd most popular programming language in Chinese Wikipedia. Article “Z shell” in Chinese Wikipedia has 45.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Z shell”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 536 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Z shell is on the 357^th place in local ranking of software in Chinese Wikipedia and on the 414^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Z shell is on the 93^rd place in local ranking of programming languages in Chinese Wikipedia and on the 114^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 211 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 664 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #11363 in June 2015
• Global: #6122 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #50883 in June 2019
• Global: #60784 in June 2019

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) Z shell		51.063
2	Chinese (zh) Z shell		45.8728
3	Turkish (tr) Zsh		43.9325
4	Indonesian (id) Z shell		34.023
5	Russian (ru) Zsh		34.0109
6	Catalan (ca) Z shell		33.8283
7	Thai (th) ซีเชลล์		33.5638
8	German (de) Z shell		33.4312
9	Korean (ko) Z 셸		30.1194
10	Spanish (es) Zsh		30.012

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Z shell" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Z shell		1 631 952
2	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		226 141
3	Russian (ru) Zsh		204 807
4	French (fr) Z Shell		122 824
5	German (de) Z shell		101 032
6	Chinese (zh) Z shell		86 436
7	Polish (pl) Zsh		76 067
8	Spanish (es) Zsh		70 914
9	Italian (it) Zsh		35 032
10	Czech (cs) Z shell		13 627

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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 "Z shell" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Z shell		6 222
2	German (de) Z shell		610
3	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		413
4	Chinese (zh) Z shell		396
5	Russian (ru) Zsh		382
6	French (fr) Z Shell		357
7	Spanish (es) Zsh		182
8	Polish (pl) Zsh		164
9	Italian (it) Zsh		120
10	Portuguese (pt) Z shell		96

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Z shell		170
2	French (fr) Z Shell		58
3	German (de) Z shell		47
4	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		44
5	Russian (ru) Zsh		37
6	Polish (pl) Zsh		27
7	Italian (it) Zsh		20
8	Chinese (zh) Z shell		19
9	Spanish (es) Zsh		16
10	Czech (cs) Z shell		13

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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 "Z shell" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Z shell		4
2	French (fr) Z Shell		4
3	Arabic (ar) زي شل		2
4	German (de) Z shell		2
5	Spanish (es) Zsh		2
6	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		2
7	Polish (pl) Zsh		2
8	Portuguese (pt) Z shell		2
9	Catalan (ca) Z shell		1
10	Czech (cs) Z shell		1

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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 "Z shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) Z shell		211
2	Russian (ru) Zsh		96
3	English (en) Z shell		81
4	Ukrainian (uk) Zsh		49
5	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		33
6	French (fr) Z Shell		27
7	Korean (ko) Z 셸		24
8	German (de) Z shell		22
9	Greek (el) Zsh		16
10	Spanish (es) Zsh		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زي شل
az	Azerbaijani Z shell
bg	Bulgarian Z shell
ca	Catalan Z shell
cs	Czech Z shell
de	German Z shell
el	Greek Zsh
en	English Z shell
es	Spanish Zsh
eu	Basque Zsh
fa	Persian زی شل
fi	Finnish Zsh
fr	French Z Shell
id	Indonesian Z shell
it	Italian Zsh
ja	Japanese Z Shell
ko	Korean Z 셸
no	Norwegian Z shell
pl	Polish Zsh
pt	Portuguese Z shell
ru	Russian Zsh
th	Thai ซีเชลล์
tr	Turkish Zsh
uk	Ukrainian Zsh
zh	Chinese Z shell

Best Rank

Chinese: #50883 06.2019

Global: #60784 06.2019

Best Rank

Chinese: #11363 06.2015

Global: #6122 10.2001

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