Linus Torvalds

Quality:

Linus Torvalds - Finnish software engineer. This person is the 3697^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 440^th most popular person in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Linus Torvalds” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.24 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 5359^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 4005^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 440^th most popular in people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3463^rd most popular in AI.

The 3697^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8122^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Linus Torvalds”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (4005^th place) and edited by 4209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3463^rd place).

Linus Torvalds is on the 440^th place in local ranking of people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 3697^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 3957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #79 in October 2014
• Global: #70 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #452 in July 2020
• Global: #5587 in September 2010

There are 54 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	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		88.1898
2	English (en) Linus Torvalds		78.6883
3	German (de) Linus Torvalds		70.6958
4	Catalan (ca) Linus Torvalds		67.1574
5	Greek (el) Λίνους Τόρβαλντς		51.1168
6	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		43.1059
7	Basque (eu) Linus Torvalds		41.3387
8	Tamil (ta) லினசு டோர்வால்டுசு		41.3042
9	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		40.6892
10	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		40.5794

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linus Torvalds		11 165 365
2	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		1 849 746
3	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		1 527 965
4	German (de) Linus Torvalds		1 219 284
5	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		878 820
6	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		691 006
7	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		664 222
8	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		530 231
9	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		515 327
10	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		488 780

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) Linus Torvalds		62 787
2	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		7 692
3	German (de) Linus Torvalds		5 572
4	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		4 940
5	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		4 106
6	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		4 079
7	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		2 983
8	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		2 679
9	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		2 592
10	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		1 664

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linus Torvalds		1 067
2	German (de) Linus Torvalds		306
3	French (fr) Linus Torvalds		243
4	Russian (ru) Торвальдс, Линус		214
5	Spanish (es) Linus Torvalds		204
6	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		167
7	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		140
8	Portuguese (pt) Linus Torvalds		127
9	Chinese (zh) 林纳斯·托瓦兹		111
10	Dutch (nl) Linus Torvalds		106

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) Linus Torvalds		9
2	Swedish (sv) Linus Torvalds		3
3	Finnish (fi) Linus Torvalds		2
4	Italian (it) Linus Torvalds		2
5	Belarusian (be) Лінус Торвальдс		1
6	Catalan (ca) Linus Torvalds		1
7	Czech (cs) Linus Torvalds		1
8	Persian (fa) لینوس توروالدز		1
9	Japanese (ja) リーナス・トーバルズ		1
10	Korean (ko) 리누스 토르발스		1

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

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