Classical cipher

Classical cipher - a type of cipher that was used historically but now has fallen, for the most part, into disuse. In contrast to modern cryptographic algorithms, most classical ciphers can be practically computed and solved by hand. Article "Classical cipher" in English Wikipedia has 19.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Classical cipher", its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 601 times in English Wikipedia and cited 823 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #66177 in September 2005
• Global: #46546 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #210295 in March 2016
• Global: #190988 in December 2016

There are 11 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	Turkish (tr) Klasik şifre		24.9875
2	English (en) Classical cipher		19.2738
3	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		18.6739
4	Chinese (zh) 古典密碼		18.3734
5	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		9.2644
6	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		8.6156
7	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		5.8134
8	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		5.6199
9	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		3.072
10	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		2.6778

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical cipher		605 122
2	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		235 168
3	Chinese (zh) 古典密碼		158 640
4	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		74 917
5	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		41 116
6	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		20 710
7	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		12 858
8	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		8 729
9	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		4 948
10	Indonesian (id) Sandi klasik		1 240

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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 "Classical cipher" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical cipher		2 390
2	Chinese (zh) 古典密碼		340
3	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		148
4	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		95
5	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		61
6	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		52
7	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		46
8	Turkish (tr) Klasik şifre		42
9	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		38
10	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical cipher		58
2	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		34
3	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		24
4	Chinese (zh) 古典密碼		17
5	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		16
6	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		14
7	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		13
8	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		8
9	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		3
10	Indonesian (id) Sandi klasik		2

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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 "Classical cipher" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		0
2	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		0
3	English (en) Classical cipher		0
4	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		0
5	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		0
6	Indonesian (id) Sandi klasik		0
7	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		0
8	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		0
9	Turkish (tr) Klasik şifre		0
10	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		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 "Classical cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Classical cipher		601
2	Korean (ko) 고전 암호		72
3	Chinese (zh) 古典密碼		43
4	Turkish (tr) Klasik şifre		27
5	Dutch (nl) Handcijfer		24
6	Vietnamese (vi) Mật mã học cổ điển		20
7	Catalan (ca) Xifratge clàssic		16
8	Spanish (es) Cifrado clásico		8
9	Persian (fa) رمزنگاری کلاسیک		5
10	Greek (el) Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα		4

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Xifratge clàssic
el	Greek Κλασικά κρυπτοσυστήματα
en	English Classical cipher
es	Spanish Cifrado clásico
fa	Persian رمزنگاری کلاسیک
id	Indonesian Sandi klasik
ko	Korean 고전 암호
nl	Dutch Handcijfer
tr	Turkish Klasik şifre
vi	Vietnamese Mật mã học cổ điển
zh	Chinese 古典密碼

Best Rank

English: #210295 03.2016

Global: #190988 12.2016

Best Rank

English: #66177 09.2005

Global: #46546 01.2005

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