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Touch (command)

Quality:

Touch - standard Unix program used to change a file's access and modification timestamps. Article "Touch (command)" in English Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Touch (command)", its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 275 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 233 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1988 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #19604 in January 2004
  • Global: #34035 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #75477 in March 2012
  • Global: #95648 in January 2015

There are 21 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Touch (command)
30.7771
2Arabic (ar)
توش (أمر)
19.7302
3Ukrainian (uk)
Touch
16.1648
4Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
12.1204
5Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
9.1537
6Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
8.6369
7Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
8.024
8Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
6.4463
9Russian (ru)
Touch
5.8652
10German (de)
Touch (Unix)
4.8272
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Touch (command)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Touch (command)
823 865
2Russian (ru)
Touch
217 187
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
89 746
4Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
80 727
5German (de)
Touch (Unix)
71 694
6Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
56 952
7Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
42 840
8Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
42 739
9Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
19 662
10Portuguese (pt)
Touch (informática)
13 959
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Touch (command)" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Touch (command)
1 270
2Russian (ru)
Touch
320
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
170
4German (de)
Touch (Unix)
92
5Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
70
6Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
66
7Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
42
8Ukrainian (uk)
Touch
28
9Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
28
10Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
26
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Touch (command)
60
2German (de)
Touch (Unix)
42
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
30
4Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
20
5Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
18
6Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
14
7Russian (ru)
Touch
13
8Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
11
9Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
9
10Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Turkish (tr)
Touch (komut)
1
2Arabic (ar)
توش (أمر)
0
3Belarusian (be)
Touch
0
4Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
0
5German (de)
Touch (Unix)
0
6English (en)
Touch (command)
0
7Spanish (es)
Touch (Unix)
0
8Persian (fa)
Touch
0
9French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
0
10Hebrew (he)
Touch (יוניקס)
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Touch (command)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Touch (command)
233
2Russian (ru)
Touch
182
3French (fr)
Touch (Unix)
171
4Korean (ko)
Touch (유닉스)
145
5Polish (pl)
Touch (Unix)
131
6Italian (it)
Touch (Unix)
129
7Japanese (ja)
Touch (UNIX)
120
8Czech (cs)
Touch (Unix)
116
9Hungarian (hu)
Touch (Unix)
116
10Chinese (zh)
Touch (Unix)
110
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
توش (أمر)
beBelarusian
Touch
csCzech
Touch (Unix)
deGerman
Touch (Unix)
enEnglish
Touch (command)
esSpanish
Touch (Unix)
faPersian
Touch
frFrench
Touch (Unix)
heHebrew
Touch (יוניקס)
huHungarian
Touch (Unix)
itItalian
Touch (Unix)
jaJapanese
Touch (UNIX)
kaGeorgian
Touch (იუნიქსი)
koKorean
Touch (유닉스)
plPolish
Touch (Unix)
ptPortuguese
Touch (informática)
roRomanian
Touch (Unix)
ruRussian
Touch
trTurkish
Touch (komut)
ukUkrainian
Touch
zhChinese
Touch (Unix)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#75477
03.2012
Global:
#95648
01.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19604
01.2004
Global:
#34035
12.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Touch from Wikipedia articles about List of UNIX commands, Touch, Unix, List of GNU Core Utilities commands and GNU Core Utilities. Whereas reading the article about Touch people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of UNIX commands, Timestamp, Mkdir, Single UNIX Specification and GNU Core Utilities.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ru: Touch
fa: Touch
uk: Touch
be: Touch

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