Dead drop

Dead drop - method of espionage tradecraft. Article “Dead drop” in English Wikipedia has 32.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Dead drop”, its content was written by 130 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 327 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 249 times in English Wikipedia and cited 494 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18624 in May 2004
• Global: #38364 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #32483 in November 2010
• Global: #55148 in November 2010

There are 15 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Daud postkasse		33.7071
2	English (en) Dead drop		32.7375
3	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		31.2167
4	Korean (ko) 데드 드롭		27.2883
5	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		27.2631
6	Catalan (ca) Bústia morta		26.6262
7	Finnish (fi) Kylmä kätkö		20.6106
8	Portuguese (pt) Dead drop		15.8352
9	Ukrainian (uk) Мертвий ящик		13.8757
10	Dutch (nl) Dode brievenbus		11.7953

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dead drop		2 065 168
2	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		246 303
3	Japanese (ja) デッド・ドロップ		88 981
4	French (fr) Boîte aux lettres morte		83 808
5	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		19 845
6	Czech (cs) Mrtvá schránka		19 782
7	Norwegian (no) Død postkasse		9 237
8	Dutch (nl) Dode brievenbus		7 770
9	Portuguese (pt) Dead drop		6 673
10	Danish (da) Død postkasse		5 704

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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 "Dead drop" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dead drop		10 054
2	Japanese (ja) デッド・ドロップ		688
3	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		661
4	French (fr) Boîte aux lettres morte		334
5	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		77
6	Czech (cs) Mrtvá schránka		57
7	Portuguese (pt) Dead drop		44
8	Danish (da) Død postkasse		37
9	Dutch (nl) Dode brievenbus		33
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мертвий ящик		26

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dead drop		130
2	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		72
3	French (fr) Boîte aux lettres morte		33
4	Norwegian (no) Død postkasse		21
5	Dutch (nl) Dode brievenbus		13
6	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		12
7	Catalan (ca) Bústia morta		9
8	Czech (cs) Mrtvá schránka		8
9	Japanese (ja) デッド・ドロップ		8
10	Danish (da) Død postkasse		7

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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 "Dead drop" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Bústia morta		0
2	Czech (cs) Mrtvá schránka		0
3	Danish (da) Død postkasse		0
4	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		0
5	English (en) Dead drop		0
6	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		0
7	Finnish (fi) Kylmä kätkö		0
8	French (fr) Boîte aux lettres morte		0
9	Japanese (ja) デッド・ドロップ		0
10	Korean (ko) 데드 드롭		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 "Dead drop" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dead drop		249
2	French (fr) Boîte aux lettres morte		71
3	German (de) Toter Briefkasten		45
4	Japanese (ja) デッド・ドロップ		40
5	Ukrainian (uk) Мертвий ящик		25
6	Spanish (es) Buzón muerto		15
7	Czech (cs) Mrtvá schránka		12
8	Norwegian (no) Død postkasse		10
9	Dutch (nl) Dode brievenbus		8
10	Portuguese (pt) Dead drop		5

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bústia morta
cs	Czech Mrtvá schránka
da	Danish Død postkasse
de	German Toter Briefkasten
en	English Dead drop
es	Spanish Buzón muerto
fi	Finnish Kylmä kätkö
fr	French Boîte aux lettres morte
ja	Japanese デッド・ドロップ
ko	Korean 데드 드롭
nl	Dutch Dode brievenbus
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Daud postkasse
no	Norwegian Død postkasse
pt	Portuguese Dead drop
uk	Ukrainian Мертвий ящик

Best Rank

English: #32483 11.2010

Global: #55148 11.2010

Best Rank

English: #18624 05.2004

Global: #38364 07.2011

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