Skytale

Scytale - encryption tool used to perform a transposition cipher. Article “Skytale” in German Wikipedia has 6.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Skytale”, its content was written by 90 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 500 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in German Wikipedia and cited 400 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2694 in December 2025
• Global: #20651 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #57882 in June 2021
• Global: #144136 in March 2026

There are 26 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	Russian (ru) Скитала		42.5478
2	Italian (it) Scitala		31.8325
3	Polish (pl) Skytale		24.3768
4	Turkish (tr) Scytale		21.2191
5	Greek (el) Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη		20.9557
6	English (en) Scytale		19.8667
7	Arabic (ar) سكيتال		19.4346
8	Catalan (ca) Escítala		15.1671
9	Spanish (es) Escítala		14.7268
10	French (fr) Scytale		12.8075

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scytale		766 485
2	German (de) Skytale		265 143
3	Russian (ru) Скитала		171 777
4	Spanish (es) Escítala		170 013
5	French (fr) Scytale		155 915
6	Italian (it) Scitala		85 152
7	Polish (pl) Skytale		58 486
8	Korean (ko) 스키테일		47 938
9	Japanese (ja) スキュタレー		45 351
10	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		40 675

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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 "Skytale" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scytale		2 304
2	German (de) Skytale		717
3	French (fr) Scytale		469
4	Russian (ru) Скитала		313
5	Japanese (ja) スキュタレー		237
6	Spanish (es) Escítala		211
7	Italian (it) Scitala		166
8	Korean (ko) 스키테일		123
9	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		118
10	Polish (pl) Skytale		114

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Skytale		90
2	English (en) Scytale		81
3	French (fr) Scytale		52
4	Italian (it) Scitala		41
5	Russian (ru) Скитала		36
6	Dutch (nl) Scytale (cryptografie)		24
7	Danish (da) Skytale		21
8	Spanish (es) Escítala		21
9	Vietnamese (vi) Gậy mật mã		18
10	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		15

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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 "Skytale" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سكيتال		2
2	Greek (el) Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη		1
3	Galician (gl) Escítala		1
4	Catalan (ca) Escítala		0
5	Czech (cs) Skytalé		0
6	Danish (da) Skytale		0
7	German (de) Skytale		0
8	English (en) Scytale		0
9	Spanish (es) Escítala		0
10	French (fr) Scytale		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 "Skytale" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Scytale		85
2	French (fr) Scytale		65
3	Italian (it) Scitala		45
4	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		33
5	Dutch (nl) Scytale (cryptografie)		23
6	Vietnamese (vi) Gậy mật mã		21
7	Ukrainian (uk) Скитала		19
8	Hungarian (hu) Szkütale		18
9	German (de) Skytale		12
10	Spanish (es) Escítala		11

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سكيتال
ca	Catalan Escítala
cs	Czech Skytalé
da	Danish Skytale
de	German Skytale
el	Greek Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη
en	English Scytale
es	Spanish Escítala
fr	French Scytale
gl	Galician Escítala
hu	Hungarian Szkütale
it	Italian Scitala
ja	Japanese スキュタレー
ko	Korean 스키테일
lt	Lithuanian Skytalė
nl	Dutch Scytale (cryptografie)
no	Norwegian Skytale
pl	Polish Skytale
pt	Portuguese Cítala
ro	Romanian Schitală
ru	Russian Скитала
sv	Swedish Skytale
tr	Turkish Scytale
uk	Ukrainian Скитала
vi	Vietnamese Gậy mật mã
zh	Chinese 密碼棒

Best Rank

German: #57882 06.2021

Global: #144136 03.2026

Best Rank

German: #2694 12.2025

Global: #20651 11.2014

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