Data degradation

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Data degradation

Quality:

Data degradation - accumulation of data corruption on a storage device over time. Article “Data degradation” in English Wikipedia has 47.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.48 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Data degradation”, its content was written by 147 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 205 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 172 times in English Wikipedia and cited 276 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4660 in November 2003
  • Global: #14039 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #95528 in June 2018
  • Global: #84402 in June 2018

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Data degradation
47.114
2Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
26.5148
3Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
23.2165
4Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
22.9754
5Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
21.4673
6Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
13.5998
7Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
7.9853
8Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
7.6121
9Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
2.8061
10Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
0.153
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Data degradation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Data degradation
623 177
2Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
30 175
3Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
20 512
4Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
14 492
5Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
10 696
6Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
9 196
7Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
6 155
8Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
3 383
9Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
1 122
10Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Data degradation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Data degradation
3 769
2Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
151
3Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
65
4Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
48
5Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
27
6Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
18
7Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
16
8Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
13
9Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
9
10Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Data degradation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Data degradation
147
2Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
11
3Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
11
4Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
10
5Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
9
6Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
7
7Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
4
8Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
2
10Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Data degradation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
1
2Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
0
3English (en)
Data degradation
0
4Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
0
5Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
0
6Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
0
7Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
0
8Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
0
9Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Data degradation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Data degradation
172
2Arabic (ar)
تدهور البيانات
39
3Korean (ko)
데이터 열화
27
4Russian (ru)
Деградация данных
10
5Croatian (hr)
Trunjenje bitova
8
6Swedish (sv)
Bitröta
6
7Spanish (es)
Degradación de datos
5
8Ukrainian (uk)
Деградація даних
4
9Hebrew (he)
ריקבון ביטים
3
10Dutch (nl)
Bitrot
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تدهور البيانات
enEnglish
Data degradation
esSpanish
Degradación de datos
heHebrew
ריקבון ביטים
hrCroatian
Trunjenje bitova
koKorean
데이터 열화
nlDutch
Bitrot
ruRussian
Деградация данных
svSwedish
Bitröta
ukUkrainian
Деградація даних

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#95528
06.2018
Global:
#84402
06.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4660
11.2003
Global:
#14039
11.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Data degradation from Wikipedia articles about Bit rot, Disc rot, USB flash drive, Data corruption and Checksum. Whereas reading the article about Data degradation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Disc rot, Link rot, Data corruption, Software rot and ECC memory.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

nl: Bitrot

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