Product activation

Product activation - license validation procedure that some proprietary software uses. Article “Product activation” in English Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.31 points.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Product activation”, its content was written by 138 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 123 times in English Wikipedia and cited 526 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3964 in February 2004
• Global: #14763 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52327 in February 2015
• Global: #74392 in February 2015

There are 14 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	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		32.0053
2	English (en) Product activation		24.9649
3	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		20.6631
4	French (fr) Activation (logiciel)		20.3083
5	German (de) Produktaktivierung		13.0794
6	Catalan (ca) Activació de producte		11.7264
7	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		9.8342
8	Chinese (zh) 产品激活		6.3505
9	Dutch (nl) Productactivatie		4.6051
10	Polish (pl) Aktywacja systemu		3.1824

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Product activation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		964 335
2	English (en) Product activation		576 876
3	German (de) Produktaktivierung		164 240
4	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		61 973
5	Chinese (zh) 产品激活		47 374
6	Polish (pl) Aktywacja systemu		32 043
7	Hebrew (he) אקטיבציה		25 031
8	Korean (ko) 제품 활성화		20 404
9	French (fr) Activation (logiciel)		10 235
10	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		9 036

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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 "Product activation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Product activation		1 351
2	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		910
3	Chinese (zh) 产品激活		148
4	German (de) Produktaktivierung		133
5	Hebrew (he) אקטיבציה		53
6	French (fr) Activation (logiciel)		43
7	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		32
8	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		23
9	Polish (pl) Aktywacja systemu		19
10	Korean (ko) 제품 활성화		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Product activation		138
2	German (de) Produktaktivierung		66
3	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		61
4	Chinese (zh) 产品激活		22
5	Polish (pl) Aktywacja systemu		21
6	Hebrew (he) אקטיבציה		18
7	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		9
8	Korean (ko) 제품 활성화		8
9	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		7
10	Dutch (nl) Productactivatie		7

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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 "Product activation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Product activation		1
2	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		0
3	Catalan (ca) Activació de producte		0
4	German (de) Produktaktivierung		0
5	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		0
6	Finnish (fi) Tuoteaktivointi		0
7	French (fr) Activation (logiciel)		0
8	Hebrew (he) אקטיבציה		0
9	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		0
10	Korean (ko) 제품 활성화		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 "Product activation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) アクティベーション		133
2	English (en) Product activation		123
3	Chinese (zh) 产品激活		66
4	Korean (ko) 제품 활성화		56
5	German (de) Produktaktivierung		49
6	Arabic (ar) تنشيط منتج		43
7	Hebrew (he) אקטיבציה		15
8	Spanish (es) Activación de producto		11
9	French (fr) Activation (logiciel)		8
10	Polish (pl) Aktywacja systemu		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تنشيط منتج
ca	Catalan Activació de producte
de	German Produktaktivierung
en	English Product activation
es	Spanish Activación de producto
fi	Finnish Tuoteaktivointi
fr	French Activation (logiciel)
he	Hebrew אקטיבציה
ja	Japanese アクティベーション
ko	Korean 제품 활성화
nl	Dutch Productactivatie
pl	Polish Aktywacja systemu
sv	Swedish Produktaktivering
zh	Chinese 产品激活

Best Rank

English: #52327 02.2015

Global: #74392 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #3964 02.2004

Global: #14763 02.2004

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