DES

Quality:

Data Encryption Standard - Early unclassified symmetric-key block cipher. Article “DES” in Catalan Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.3 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “DES” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “DES”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 1750 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 65 times in Catalan Wikipedia and cited 2467 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #154 in January 2009
• Global: #29 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #2048 in August 2009
• Global: #16302 in April 2009

There are 44 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	Chinese (zh) 資料加密標準		75.7599
2	English (en) Data Encryption Standard		67.483
3	Catalan (ca) DES		62.6348
4	German (de) Data Encryption Standard		52.5032
5	Polish (pl) Data Encryption Standard		45.5881
6	Italian (it) Data Encryption Standard		44.4384
7	Russian (ru) DES		44.2102
8	Hebrew (he) DES		38.0903
9	Indonesian (id) Standar Enkripsi Data		37.0901
10	Vietnamese (vi) DES (mã hóa)		30.2953

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Data Encryption Standard		5 595 877
2	German (de) Data Encryption Standard		1 065 221
3	Russian (ru) DES		973 715
4	Spanish (es) Data Encryption Standard		580 205
5	Chinese (zh) 資料加密標準		435 066
6	French (fr) Data Encryption Standard		434 639
7	Polish (pl) Data Encryption Standard		347 934
8	Italian (it) Data Encryption Standard		282 767
9	Portuguese (pt) Data Encryption Standard		232 833
10	Vietnamese (vi) DES (mã hóa)		198 817

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) Data Encryption Standard		5 759
2	Russian (ru) DES		903
3	German (de) Data Encryption Standard		770
4	Chinese (zh) 資料加密標準		593
5	Japanese (ja) Data Encryption Standard		457
6	French (fr) Data Encryption Standard		415
7	Italian (it) Data Encryption Standard		380
8	Spanish (es) Data Encryption Standard		306
9	Polish (pl) Data Encryption Standard		247
10	Portuguese (pt) Data Encryption Standard		101

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Data Encryption Standard		366
2	German (de) Data Encryption Standard		213
3	Italian (it) Data Encryption Standard		119
4	Russian (ru) DES		117
5	French (fr) Data Encryption Standard		115
6	Spanish (es) Data Encryption Standard		62
7	Polish (pl) Data Encryption Standard		57
8	Hebrew (he) DES		56
9	Dutch (nl) Data Encryption Standard		54
10	Vietnamese (vi) DES (mã hóa)		48

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	Arabic (ar) معيار تعمية البيانات		1
2	Catalan (ca) DES		1
3	German (de) Data Encryption Standard		1
4	English (en) Data Encryption Standard		1
5	Finnish (fi) DES		1
6	Italian (it) Data Encryption Standard		1
7	Chinese (zh) 資料加密標準		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Verilənlərin şifrələnməsi standartı		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) DES		0
10	Czech (cs) Data Encryption Standard		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information