Lock (computer science)

Lock - synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on concurrent access to a resource. Article “Lock (computer science)” in English Wikipedia has 39 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 11 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Lock (computer science)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lock (computer science)”, its content was written by 142 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 389 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 287 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4823 in June 2003
• Global: #10788 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74511 in April 2015
• Global: #91777 in March 2009

There are 19 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	Estonian (et) Lukk (arvutiteadus)		52.6712
2	English (en) Lock (computer science)		38.9651
3	Hungarian (hu) Lock (informatika)		32.7303
4	Ukrainian (uk) Блокування (програмування)		23.3745
5	Japanese (ja) ロック (計算機科学)		22.949
6	Arabic (ar) قفل (حوسبة)		20.8221
7	German (de) Lock		14.1147
8	Catalan (ca) Cadenat (informàtica)		12.0461
9	Korean (ko) 락 (컴퓨터 과학)		10.811
10	Hebrew (he) מנעול (תוכנה)		10.6244

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lock (computer science)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lock (computer science)		1 816 477
2	German (de) Lock		178 070
3	Italian (it) Lock		68 594
4	Japanese (ja) ロック (計算機科学)		66 810
5	Spanish (es) Cierre de exclusión mutua		59 156
6	Russian (ru) Блокировка (программирование)		40 864
7	Polish (pl) Blokada (informatyka)		39 131
8	French (fr) Verrou (informatique)		29 989
9	Chinese (zh) 锁 (计算机科学)		26 421
10	Hebrew (he) מנעול (תוכנה)		23 006

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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 "Lock (computer science)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lock (computer science)		5 940
2	German (de) Lock		211
3	Chinese (zh) 锁 (计算机科学)		119
4	Japanese (ja) ロック (計算機科学)		91
5	Russian (ru) Блокировка (программирование)		67
6	Spanish (es) Cierre de exclusión mutua		66
7	Hebrew (he) מנעול (תוכנה)		48
8	Italian (it) Lock		48
9	French (fr) Verrou (informatique)		42
10	Polish (pl) Blokada (informatyka)		34

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lock (computer science)		142
2	German (de) Lock		59
3	French (fr) Verrou (informatique)		34
4	Italian (it) Lock		33
5	Hebrew (he) מנעול (תוכנה)		27
6	Japanese (ja) ロック (計算機科学)		13
7	Polish (pl) Blokada (informatyka)		12
8	Chinese (zh) 锁 (计算机科学)		12
9	Czech (cs) Zámek (informatika)		10
10	Spanish (es) Cierre de exclusión mutua		10

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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 "Lock (computer science)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Estonian (et) Lukk (arvutiteadus)		4
2	English (en) Lock (computer science)		1
3	Arabic (ar) قفل (حوسبة)		0
4	Catalan (ca) Cadenat (informàtica)		0
5	Czech (cs) Zámek (informatika)		0
6	German (de) Lock		0
7	Spanish (es) Cierre de exclusión mutua		0
8	Persian (fa) قفل (رایانه)		0
9	French (fr) Verrou (informatique)		0
10	Hebrew (he) מנעול (תוכנה)		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 "Lock (computer science)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lock (computer science)		287
2	Ukrainian (uk) Блокування (програмування)		152
3	German (de) Lock		132
4	Japanese (ja) ロック (計算機科学)		108
5	Persian (fa) قفل (رایانه)		95
6	Chinese (zh) 锁 (计算机科学)		86
7	Korean (ko) 락 (컴퓨터 과학)		62
8	Arabic (ar) قفل (حوسبة)		45
9	French (fr) Verrou (informatique)		31
10	Spanish (es) Cierre de exclusión mutua		26

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قفل (حوسبة)
ca	Catalan Cadenat (informàtica)
cs	Czech Zámek (informatika)
de	German Lock
en	English Lock (computer science)
es	Spanish Cierre de exclusión mutua
et	Estonian Lukk (arvutiteadus)
fa	Persian قفل (رایانه)
fr	French Verrou (informatique)
he	Hebrew מנעול (תוכנה)
hu	Hungarian Lock (informatika)
it	Italian Lock
ja	Japanese ロック (計算機科学)
ko	Korean 락 (컴퓨터 과학)
lt	Lithuanian Užraktas (programavimas)
pl	Polish Blokada (informatyka)
ru	Russian Блокировка (программирование)
uk	Ukrainian Блокування (програмування)
zh	Chinese 锁 (计算机科学)

Best Rank

English: #74511 04.2015

Global: #91777 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #4823 06.2003

Global: #10788 06.2003

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