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Port knocking

Quality:

Port knocking - sending a specific sequence of requests to closed ports to open a port on a firewall. Article “Port knocking” in English Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.93 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Port knocking”, its content was written by 86 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in English Wikipedia and cited 34 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #28639 in August 2004
  • Global: #59143 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #137791 in January 2008
  • Global: #183188 in January 2008

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Russian (ru)
Port knocking
18.0028
2English (en)
Port knocking
16.6164
3Czech (cs)
Port knocking
11.6625
4Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
7.8736
5Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
4.6414
6Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
4.6023
7Italian (it)
Port knocking
4.5619
8French (fr)
Port knocking
3.875
9German (de)
Port knocking
3.0013
10Polish (pl)
Port knocking
1.4722
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Port knocking" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Port knocking
649 116
2German (de)
Port knocking
69 547
3Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
43 622
4French (fr)
Port knocking
40 789
5Polish (pl)
Port knocking
29 134
6Italian (it)
Port knocking
22 841
7Czech (cs)
Port knocking
13 120
8Russian (ru)
Port knocking
5 840
9Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
5 073
10Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
1 069
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Port knocking" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Port knocking
2 006
2French (fr)
Port knocking
146
3German (de)
Port knocking
142
4Russian (ru)
Port knocking
95
5Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
75
6Italian (it)
Port knocking
63
7Polish (pl)
Port knocking
37
8Czech (cs)
Port knocking
15
9Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
11
10Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Port knocking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Port knocking
86
2German (de)
Port knocking
28
3Italian (it)
Port knocking
23
4French (fr)
Port knocking
19
5Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
15
6Czech (cs)
Port knocking
10
7Polish (pl)
Port knocking
10
8Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
9
9Russian (ru)
Port knocking
5
10Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Port knocking" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Port knocking
1
2Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
0
3Czech (cs)
Port knocking
0
4German (de)
Port knocking
0
5English (en)
Port knocking
0
6Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
0
7Italian (it)
Port knocking
0
8Polish (pl)
Port knocking
0
9Russian (ru)
Port knocking
0
10Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Port knocking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Port knocking
12
2German (de)
Port knocking
5
3Czech (cs)
Port knocking
4
4Polish (pl)
Port knocking
4
5Spanish (es)
Golpeo de puertos
3
6French (fr)
Port knocking
2
7Italian (it)
Port knocking
2
8Russian (ru)
Port knocking
1
9Turkish (tr)
Port knocking
1
10Arabic (ar)
طرق المنافذ
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
طرق المنافذ
csCzech
Port knocking
deGerman
Port knocking
enEnglish
Port knocking
esSpanish
Golpeo de puertos
frFrench
Port knocking
itItalian
Port knocking
plPolish
Port knocking
ruRussian
Port knocking
trTurkish
Port knocking

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#137791
01.2008
Global:
#183188
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#28639
08.2004
Global:
#59143
02.2007

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Port knocking from Wikipedia articles about Hole punching, Port, OpenWrt, Covert channel and Daemon. Whereas reading the article about Port knocking people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Daemon, Security through obscurity, IP address spoofing, Port scanner and Rootkit.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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