Forkbomb

Fork bomb - denial-of-service attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation. Article “Forkbomb” in German Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Forkbomb”, its content was written by 54 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 636 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in German Wikipedia and cited 371 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #13261 in December 2009
• Global: #11819 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #30601 in January 2013
• Global: #21596 in March 2025

There are 18 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) Fork bomb		37.5607
2	Turkish (tr) Fork Bomb		36.2896
3	Korean (ko) 포크 폭탄		36.2414
4	Indonesian (id) Fork bomb		33.9607
5	Croatian (hr) Fork bomba		27.3004
6	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		22.5766
7	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		21.2696
8	Italian (it) Fork bomb		17.2417
9	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		13.8037
10	German (de) Forkbomb		12.6859

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Forkbomb" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork bomb		3 024 297
2	German (de) Forkbomb		278 152
3	French (fr) Fork bomb		246 386
4	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		220 488
5	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		186 462
6	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		136 113
7	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		115 173
8	Italian (it) Fork bomb		82 044
9	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		66 515
10	Czech (cs) Fork bomba		14 038

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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 "Forkbomb" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork bomb		10 928
2	German (de) Forkbomb		474
3	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		451
4	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		413
5	French (fr) Fork bomb		405
6	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		260
7	Simple English (simple) Fork bomb		209
8	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		201
9	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		179
10	Italian (it) Fork bomb		139

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

Language versions of the article "Forkbomb" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork bomb		330
2	German (de) Forkbomb		54
3	French (fr) Fork bomb		49
4	Italian (it) Fork bomb		47
5	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		43
6	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		31
7	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		16
8	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		15
9	Catalan (ca) Bomba fork		14
10	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		9

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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 "Forkbomb" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		1
2	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		1
3	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		1
4	Catalan (ca) Bomba fork		0
5	Czech (cs) Fork bomba		0
6	German (de) Forkbomb		0
7	English (en) Fork bomb		0
8	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		0
9	Persian (fa) فورک بمب		0
10	French (fr) Fork bomb		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 "Forkbomb" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fork bomb		162
2	Persian (fa) فورک بمب		83
3	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		49
4	Korean (ko) 포크 폭탄		14
5	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		13
6	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		8
7	German (de) Forkbomb		7
8	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		7
9	French (fr) Fork bomb		6
10	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		5

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bomba fork
cs	Czech Fork bomba
de	German Forkbomb
en	English Fork bomb
es	Spanish Bomba fork
fa	Persian فورک بمب
fr	French Fork bomb
hr	Croatian Fork bomba
id	Indonesian Fork bomb
it	Italian Fork bomb
ja	Japanese Fork爆弾
ko	Korean 포크 폭탄
pl	Polish Fork-bomba
ru	Russian Форк-бомба
simple	Simple English Fork bomb
tr	Turkish Fork Bomb
uk	Ukrainian Fork-бомба
zh	Chinese Fork炸弹

Best Rank

German: #30601 01.2013

Global: #21596 03.2025

Best Rank

German: #13261 12.2009

Global: #11819 07.2003

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