Monkey patch

Monkey patch - technique in which a computer program extends or modifies supporting system software locally, affecting only the running instance of the program. Article “Monkey patch” in English Wikipedia has 20.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.29 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

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

Since the creation of article “Monkey patch”, its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 172 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in English Wikipedia and cited 37 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67394 in July 2008
• Global: #156672 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #71391 in August 2008
• Global: #114596 in August 2008

There are 9 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) Monkey patch		20.6413
2	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		19.4676
3	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		17.614
4	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		13.8954
5	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		11.6764
6	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		10.7819
7	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		4.9087
8	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		3.8123
9	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		1.004

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Monkey patch" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monkey patch		1 035 856
2	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		70 913
3	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		50 762
4	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		24 015
5	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		17 913
6	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		896
7	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		730
8	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		282
9	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		253

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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 "Monkey patch" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Monkey patch		4 317
2	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		229
3	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		187
4	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		164
5	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		125
6	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		25
7	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		14
8	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		13
9	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		13

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Monkey patch		123
2	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		17
3	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		8
4	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		7
5	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		6
6	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		4
7	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		3
8	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		3
9	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		1

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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 "Monkey patch" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Monkey patch		1
2	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		0
3	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		0
4	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		0
5	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		0
6	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		0
9	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		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 "Monkey patch" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Monkey patch		24
2	French (fr) Monkey-Patch		4
3	Chinese (zh) 猴子补丁		3
4	Japanese (ja) モンキーパッチ		2
5	Russian (ru) Monkey patch		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Мавполатування		2
7	Korean (ko) 몽키 패치		0
8	Turkish (tr) Monkey patch		0
9	Vietnamese (vi) Monkey patch		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Monkey patch
fr	French Monkey-Patch
ja	Japanese モンキーパッチ
ko	Korean 몽키 패치
ru	Russian Monkey patch
tr	Turkish Monkey patch
uk	Ukrainian Мавполатування
vi	Vietnamese Monkey patch
zh	Chinese 猴子补丁

Best Rank

English: #71391 08.2008

Global: #114596 08.2008

Best Rank

English: #67394 07.2008

Global: #156672 11.2007

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