Z shell

Z shell - Unix shell. This software is the 410^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 400^th most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 102^nd most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Z shell” in English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Z shell” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Z shell”, its content was written by 162 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 508 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Z shell is on the 400^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 410^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Z shell is on the 102^nd place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 110^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 82 times in English Wikipedia and cited 680 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19680 in July 2004
• Global: #6118 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #46969 in June 2019
• Global: #60594 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, 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	Chinese (zh) Z shell		45.9121
2	English (en) Z shell		44.089
3	Turkish (tr) Zsh		43.8401
4	Indonesian (id) Z shell		35.187
5	Thai (th) ซีเชลล์		33.7452
6	Catalan (ca) Z shell		33.7055
7	Korean (ko) Z 셸		30.097
8	Finnish (fi) Zsh		28.5325
9	Italian (it) Zsh		28.1213
10	Ukrainian (uk) Zsh		25.378

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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		1 541 505
2	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		220 524
3	Russian (ru) Zsh		198 044
4	French (fr) Z Shell		117 076
5	German (de) Z shell		92 600
6	Chinese (zh) Z shell		82 516
7	Polish (pl) Zsh		73 764
8	Spanish (es) Zsh		67 904
9	Italian (it) Zsh		32 885
10	Czech (cs) Z shell		12 868

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Z shell		7 031
2	German (de) Z shell		609
3	Russian (ru) Zsh		540
4	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		471
5	Chinese (zh) Z shell		435
6	French (fr) Z Shell		411
7	Spanish (es) Zsh		277
8	Polish (pl) Zsh		176
9	Italian (it) Zsh		159
10	Portuguese (pt) Z shell		138

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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		162
2	French (fr) Z Shell		56
3	German (de) Z shell		45
4	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		41
5	Russian (ru) Zsh		36
6	Polish (pl) Zsh		24
7	Italian (it) Zsh		20
8	Chinese (zh) Z shell		19
9	Spanish (es) Zsh		15
10	Czech (cs) Z shell		11

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Z shell		2
2	Arabic (ar) زي شل		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Z shell		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Z shell		0
5	Catalan (ca) Z shell		0
6	Czech (cs) Z shell		0
7	German (de) Z shell		0
8	Greek (el) Zsh		0
9	Spanish (es) Zsh		0
10	Basque (eu) Zsh		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 "Z shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) Z shell		210
2	Russian (ru) Zsh		96
3	English (en) Z shell		82
4	Ukrainian (uk) Zsh		50
5	Japanese (ja) Z Shell		33
6	French (fr) Z Shell		27
7	German (de) Z shell		23
8	Korean (ko) Z 셸		23
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

English: #46969 06.2019

Global: #60594 06.2019

Best Rank

English: #19680 07.2004

Global: #6118 10.2001

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