Obfuscation (software)

Software obfuscation - creating difficult-to-understand source code. Article "Obfuscation (software)" in English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 26 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Obfuscation (software)", its content was written by 337 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 758 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 327 times in English Wikipedia and cited 745 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #64 in December 2001
• Global: #71 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35938 in January 2017
• Global: #54674 in April 2009

There are 17 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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		47.5465
2	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		44.0645
3	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		40.9163
4	Catalan (ca) Ofuscació de codi		29.8647
5	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		25.9601
6	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		23.4262
7	Italian (it) Offuscamento del codice		22.4363
8	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		22.3148
9	Dutch (nl) Obfuscatie (software)		21.8287
10	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		21.7139

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Obfuscation (software)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		2 750 892
2	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		415 840
3	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		366 984
4	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		125 365
5	French (fr) Code impénétrable		123 984
6	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		110 831
7	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		61 238
8	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		52 479
9	Korean (ko) 난독화		49 048
10	Czech (cs) Obfuscator		26 883

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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 "Obfuscation (software)" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		5 465
2	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		3 168
3	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		615
4	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		445
5	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		419
6	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		407
7	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		334
8	French (fr) Code impénétrable		300
9	Korean (ko) 난독화		161
10	Ukrainian (uk) Обфускація (програмне забезпечнння)		97

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		337
2	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		92
3	French (fr) Code impénétrable		74
4	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		67
5	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		35
6	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		34
7	Italian (it) Offuscamento del codice		24
8	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		23
9	Ukrainian (uk) Обфускація (програмне забезпечнння)		15
10	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		14

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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 "Obfuscation (software)" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Ofuscació de codi		1
2	French (fr) Code impénétrable		1
3	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		1
4	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		1
5	Czech (cs) Obfuscator		0
6	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		0
7	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		0
8	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		0
9	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		0
10	Italian (it) Offuscamento del codice		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 "Obfuscation (software)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		327
2	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		83
3	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		64
4	Korean (ko) 난독화		54
5	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		48
6	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		37
7	French (fr) Code impénétrable		33
8	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		31
9	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		19
10	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		13

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Ofuscació de codi
cs	Czech Obfuscator
de	German Obfuskation (Software)
en	English Obfuscation (software)
es	Spanish Ofuscación
fa	Persian مبهم‌سازی کد
fr	French Code impénétrable
it	Italian Offuscamento del codice
ja	Japanese 難読化 (ソフトウェア)
ko	Korean 난독화
nl	Dutch Obfuscatie (software)
pl	Polish Zaciemnianie kodu
ru	Russian Обфускация (программное обеспечение)
sr	Serbian Маскирање кода
sv	Swedish Obfuscator
uk	Ukrainian Обфускація (програмне забезпечнння)
zh	Chinese 代码混淆

Best Rank

English: #35938 01.2017

Global: #54674 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #64 12.2001

Global: #71 12.2001

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