IRC flood

Internet Relay Chat flood - denial-of-service attack on Internet chat. Article “IRC flood” in English Wikipedia has 28.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.2 points.

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

Since the creation of article “IRC flood”, its content was written by 108 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 671 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 101 times in English Wikipedia and cited 445 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18337 in February 2005
• Global: #6788 in September 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #239529 in May 2009
• Global: #37269 in October 2009

There are 16 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	English (en) IRC flood		28.8046
2	Chinese (zh) 洗版		22.0082
3	Ukrainian (uk) Флуд		20.2122
4	Czech (cs) Flooding		16.978
5	Russian (ru) Флуд		11.6399
6	Spanish (es) Flood		6.5606
7	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		5.4272
8	German (de) Flood (IRC)		3.5825
9	Finnish (fi) Floodaus		2.2439
10	Italian (it) Flood (informatica)		1.198

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Флуд		1 958 117
2	Spanish (es) Flood		603 809
3	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		569 917
4	Polish (pl) Flood (informatyka)		300 365
5	English (en) IRC flood		223 301
6	Chinese (zh) 洗版		125 956
7	Ukrainian (uk) Флуд		112 963
8	Italian (it) Flood (informatica)		93 778
9	German (de) Flood (IRC)		56 000
10	Finnish (fi) Floodaus		38 659

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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 "IRC flood" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Флуд		1 981
2	English (en) IRC flood		574
3	Chinese (zh) 洗版		454
4	Spanish (es) Flood		349
5	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		305
6	Ukrainian (uk) Флуд		190
7	Italian (it) Flood (informatica)		75
8	Polish (pl) Flood (informatyka)		66
9	Czech (cs) Flooding		34
10	Norwegian (no) Flooding		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Флуд		151
2	English (en) IRC flood		108
3	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		107
4	Spanish (es) Flood		55
5	German (de) Flood (IRC)		45
6	Polish (pl) Flood (informatyka)		42
7	Italian (it) Flood (informatica)		40
8	Chinese (zh) 洗版		30
9	Finnish (fi) Floodaus		26
10	Ukrainian (uk) Флуд		21

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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 "IRC flood" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Flood		2
2	Russian (ru) Флуд		2
3	Belarusian (be) Флуд		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Флуд		0
5	Catalan (ca) Flood		0
6	Czech (cs) Flooding		0
7	German (de) Flood (IRC)		0
8	English (en) IRC flood		0
9	Finnish (fi) Floodaus		0
10	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		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 "IRC flood" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) IRC flood		101
2	Finnish (fi) Floodaus		93
3	Chinese (zh) 洗版		72
4	Spanish (es) Flood		49
5	Russian (ru) Флуд		39
6	French (fr) Flood (Internet)		29
7	Ukrainian (uk) Флуд		18
8	Italian (it) Flood (informatica)		15
9	Catalan (ca) Flood		10
10	Polish (pl) Flood (informatyka)		8

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Флуд
bg	Bulgarian Флуд
ca	Catalan Flood
cs	Czech Flooding
de	German Flood (IRC)
en	English IRC flood
es	Spanish Flood
fi	Finnish Floodaus
fr	French Flood (Internet)
gl	Galician Flood (Internet)
it	Italian Flood (informatica)
no	Norwegian Flooding
pl	Polish Flood (informatyka)
ru	Russian Флуд
uk	Ukrainian Флуд
zh	Chinese 洗版

Best Rank

English: #239529 05.2009

Global: #37269 10.2009

Best Rank

English: #18337 02.2005

Global: #6788 09.2006

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