Tar

Quality:

Tar - computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball". Article “Tar” in Chinese Wikipedia has 27 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.42 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Tar” was edited by 1 authors in Chinese Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tar”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 1112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 180 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 2317 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #993 in December 2011
• Global: #1099 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #19547 in January 2010
• Global: #7575 in July 2008

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	English (en) Tar (computing)		51.5896
2	Russian (ru) Tar		45.8884
3	Indonesian (id) Tar (komputasi)		35.2538
4	Chinese (zh) Tar		26.9741
5	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		24.0433
6	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		23.8941
7	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		23.099
8	Italian (it) Tar (software)		21.3182
9	Japanese (ja) Tar		21.0155
10	Korean (ko) Tar (파일 포맷)		20.0637

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		4 973 911
2	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		760 147
3	Spanish (es) Tar		711 878
4	Russian (ru) Tar		621 072
5	Japanese (ja) Tar		512 516
6	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		424 142
7	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		299 623
8	Italian (it) Tar (software)		236 806
9	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		150 972
10	Chinese (zh) Tar		139 676

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) Tar (computing)		8 654
2	Russian (ru) Tar		779
3	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		695
4	Japanese (ja) Tar		686
5	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		483
6	Chinese (zh) Tar		470
7	Spanish (es) Tar		433
8	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		228
9	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		200
10	Simple English (simple) Tar (Linux tool)		146

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tar (computing)		439
2	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		106
3	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		100
4	Russian (ru) Tar		61
5	Italian (it) Tar (software)		60
6	Japanese (ja) Tar		46
7	Polish (pl) Tar (informatyka)		44
8	Spanish (es) Tar		40
9	Chinese (zh) Tar		39
10	Portuguese (pt) Tar (computação)		25

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	Finnish (fi) Tar (Unix)		1
2	French (fr) Tar (informatique)		1
3	Chinese (zh) Tar		1
4	Arabic (ar) تار (حوسبة)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Tar		0
6	Catalan (ca) Tar (format de fitxers)		0
7	Czech (cs) Tar (informatika)		0
8	German (de) Tar (Packprogramm)		0
9	English (en) Tar (computing)		0
10	Spanish (es) Tar		0

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

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