Defensive design

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Defensive design

Quality:

Defensive design - practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project or undertaking, by anticipating all possible ways that things may go wrong and minimizing the negative consequences. Article “Defensive design” in English Wikipedia has 10.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.56 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Defensive design” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Defensive design”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 60 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 278 times in English Wikipedia and cited 363 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #25539 in February 2004
  • Global: #50531 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #309864 in June 2022
  • Global: #183229 in June 2014

There are 4 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
1Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
22.186
2English (en)
Defensive design
10.6686
3Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
8.9308
4Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
2.618
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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 "Defensive design" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive design
224 772
2Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
55 931
3Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
14 582
4Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
7 643
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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 "Defensive design" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive design
1 149
2Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
93
3Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
26
4Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
13
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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 "Defensive design" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defensive design
44
2Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
8
3Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
5
4Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
3
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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 "Defensive design" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defensive design
1
2Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
0
3Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
0
4Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
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 "Defensive design" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Defensive design
278
2Chinese (zh)
防御性设计
81
3Spanish (es)
Diseño defensivo
3
4Swedish (sv)
Defensiv design
1
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Defensive design
esSpanish
Diseño defensivo
svSwedish
Defensiv design
zhChinese
防御性设计

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#309864
06.2022
Global:
#183229
06.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#25539
02.2004
Global:
#50531
02.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Defensive design from Wikipedia articles about Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, Hostile architecture, Poka-yoke, Idiot-proof and Murphys law. Whereas reading the article about Defensive design people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Defensible space theory, Idiot-proof, Poka-yoke, Fail-safe and Murphys law.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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