Pretty Good Privacy

Quality:

Pretty Good Privacy - computer program for data encryption, primarily in email (PGP). This software is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 56^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Pretty Good Privacy” in English Wikipedia has 51.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 69 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.83 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 56^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 63^rd most popular in software.

In June 2025 the article “Pretty Good Privacy” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pretty Good Privacy”, its content was written by 656 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1845 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pretty Good Privacy is on the 56^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 484 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2060 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #57 in January 2001
• Global: #57 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4388 in January 2015
• Global: #7894 in January 2015

There are 38 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) Pretty Good Privacy		51.3119
2	Chinese (zh) PGP		45.0355
3	Russian (ru) PGP		35.3615
4	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		30.9473
5	Basque (eu) PGP		30.3337
6	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		29.4753
7	Persian (fa) پی‌جی‌پی (نرم‌افزار)		29.4122
8	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		28.7092
9	Vietnamese (vi) Pretty Good Privacy		25.5612
10	Hebrew (he) PGP		24.7548

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		9 288 928
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		1 782 714
3	Russian (ru) PGP		1 023 068
4	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		640 991
5	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		621 480
6	Japanese (ja) Pretty Good Privacy		337 389
7	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		302 956
8	Chinese (zh) PGP		291 620
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		272 957
10	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		224 654

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) Pretty Good Privacy		18 250
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		2 551
3	Russian (ru) PGP		1 365
4	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		1 293
5	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		754
6	Chinese (zh) PGP		622
7	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		523
8	Japanese (ja) Pretty Good Privacy		517
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		491
10	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		364

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		656
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		203
3	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		110
4	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		107
5	Russian (ru) PGP		93
6	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		70
7	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		65
8	Chinese (zh) PGP		59
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		43
10	Norwegian (no) Pretty Good Privacy		38

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	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		3
2	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		1
3	Arabic (ar) بي جي بي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) PGP		0
5	Belarusian (be) PGP		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) PGP		0
7	Catalan (ca) Pretty Good Privacy		0
8	Czech (cs) Pretty Good Privacy		0
9	Danish (da) Pretty Good Privacy		0
10	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		0

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

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