Meltdown (security vulnerability)

Quality:

Meltdown - vulnerability in modern microprocessors which permits unauthorized memory reads. Article “Meltdown (security vulnerability)” in English Wikipedia has 72.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 149 references and 11 sections.

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 “Meltdown (security vulnerability)”, its content was written by 167 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 408 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 298 times in English Wikipedia and cited 835 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14 in January 2018
• Global: #25 in January 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #659 in January 2018
• Global: #1020 in January 2018

There are 20 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) Meltdown (security vulnerability)		72.8229
2	Spanish (es) Meltdown (vulnerabilidad)		67.2951
3	Estonian (et) Meltdown		55.4972
4	Chinese (zh) 熔毁 (安全漏洞)		50.3331
5	Catalan (ca) Meltdown		47.4457
6	Japanese (ja) Meltdown		45.3553
7	German (de) Meltdown (Sicherheitslücke)		39.0597
8	Ukrainian (uk) Meltdown (уразливість)		37.9749
9	Slovak (sk) Meltdown (zraniteľnosť)		33.2012
10	Italian (it) Meltdown (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		32.3664

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Meltdown (security vulnerability)		1 310 381
2	German (de) Meltdown (Sicherheitslücke)		172 995
3	Russian (ru) Meltdown (уязвимость)		161 095
4	Japanese (ja) Meltdown		133 100
5	Spanish (es) Meltdown (vulnerabilidad)		74 783
6	Chinese (zh) 熔毁 (安全漏洞)		55 094
7	Italian (it) Meltdown (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		42 918
8	French (fr) Meltdown (vulnérabilité)		41 134
9	Korean (ko) 멜트다운 (버그)		32 497
10	Portuguese (pt) Meltdown (informática)		13 090

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Meltdown (security vulnerability)		4 716
2	Japanese (ja) Meltdown		501
3	Russian (ru) Meltdown (уязвимость)		432
4	German (de) Meltdown (Sicherheitslücke)		314
5	Chinese (zh) 熔毁 (安全漏洞)		293
6	Spanish (es) Meltdown (vulnerabilidad)		193
7	French (fr) Meltdown (vulnérabilité)		142
8	Italian (it) Meltdown (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		95
9	Arabic (ar) ميلتداون		51
10	Korean (ko) 멜트다운 (버그)		46

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Meltdown (security vulnerability)		167
2	German (de) Meltdown (Sicherheitslücke)		48
3	Chinese (zh) 熔毁 (安全漏洞)		25
4	Italian (it) Meltdown (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		24
5	French (fr) Meltdown (vulnérabilité)		21
6	Russian (ru) Meltdown (уязвимость)		21
7	Japanese (ja) Meltdown		18
8	Spanish (es) Meltdown (vulnerabilidad)		15
9	Persian (fa) ملتداون (آسیب‌پذیری امنیتی)		10
10	Swedish (sv) Meltdown (säkerhetshål)		9

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ميلتداون		0
2	Catalan (ca) Meltdown		0
3	Czech (cs) Meltdown (zranitelnost)		0
4	Danish (da) Meltdown (it-sikkerhedssårbarhed)		0
5	German (de) Meltdown (Sicherheitslücke)		0
6	English (en) Meltdown (security vulnerability)		0
7	Spanish (es) Meltdown (vulnerabilidad)		0
8	Estonian (et) Meltdown		0
9	Persian (fa) ملتداون (آسیب‌پذیری امنیتی)		0
10	French (fr) Meltdown (vulnérabilité)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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