Protected mode

Protected mode - operational mode of x86-compatible central processing units. Article “Protected mode” in English Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 59 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.65 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.

Since the creation of article “Protected mode”, its content was written by 161 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 614 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 206 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1097 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5640 in August 2003
• Global: #12894 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #98306 in January 2008
• Global: #81630 in December 2008

There are 23 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, 2026 (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) Protected mode		69.2988
2	Slovak (sk) Chránený režim		62.615
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chế độ bảo vệ		37.5014
4	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		35.6061
5	Chinese (zh) 保護模式		29.3789
6	Polish (pl) Tryb chroniony		28.4879
7	Russian (ru) Защищённый режим		27.074
8	Kazakh (kk) Қорғалған режім		21.707
9	German (de) Protected Mode		21.6884
10	Indonesian (id) Mode terproteksi		18.7534

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Protected mode" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protected mode		1 153 291
2	Russian (ru) Защищённый режим		247 492
3	Spanish (es) Modo protegido		147 591
4	German (de) Protected Mode		124 905
5	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		119 705
6	Polish (pl) Tryb chroniony		100 855
7	Chinese (zh) 保護模式		58 771
8	French (fr) Mode protégé		54 770
9	Portuguese (pt) Modo protegido		37 715
10	Korean (ko) 보호 모드		35 095

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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 "Protected mode" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protected mode		1 803
2	German (de) Protected Mode		320
3	Russian (ru) Защищённый режим		215
4	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		214
5	Chinese (zh) 保護模式		168
6	Polish (pl) Tryb chroniony		59
7	French (fr) Mode protégé		55
8	Spanish (es) Modo protegido		49
9	Turkish (tr) Korumalı kip		45
10	Italian (it) Modalità protetta		37

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Protected mode		161
2	German (de) Protected Mode		81
3	Russian (ru) Защищённый режим		49
4	Italian (it) Modalità protetta		45
5	French (fr) Mode protégé		40
6	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		34
7	Polish (pl) Tryb chroniony		30
8	Dutch (nl) Protected mode		26
9	Chinese (zh) 保護模式		23
10	Bulgarian (bg) Защитен режим		16

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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 "Protected mode" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Bulgarian (bg) Защитен режим		0
2	Catalan (ca) Mode protegit		0
3	Czech (cs) Chráněný režim		0
4	German (de) Protected Mode		0
5	English (en) Protected mode		0
6	Spanish (es) Modo protegido		0
7	French (fr) Mode protégé		0
8	Indonesian (id) Mode terproteksi		0
9	Italian (it) Modalità protetta		0
10	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		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 "Protected mode" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Protected mode		206
2	Korean (ko) 보호 모드		166
3	German (de) Protected Mode		113
4	Portuguese (pt) Modo protegido		68
5	Chinese (zh) 保護模式		65
6	Russian (ru) Защищённый режим		58
7	Japanese (ja) プロテクトモード		55
8	French (fr) Mode protégé		54
9	Polish (pl) Tryb chroniony		50
10	Spanish (es) Modo protegido		46

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Защитен режим
ca	Catalan Mode protegit
cs	Czech Chráněný režim
de	German Protected Mode
en	English Protected mode
es	Spanish Modo protegido
fr	French Mode protégé
id	Indonesian Mode terproteksi
it	Italian Modalità protetta
ja	Japanese プロテクトモード
kk	Kazakh Қорғалған режім
ko	Korean 보호 모드
lt	Lithuanian Apsaugotas režimas
nl	Dutch Protected mode
no	Norwegian Beskyttet modus
pl	Polish Tryb chroniony
pt	Portuguese Modo protegido
ru	Russian Защищённый режим
sk	Slovak Chránený režim
tr	Turkish Korumalı kip
uk	Ukrainian Захищений режим
vi	Vietnamese Chế độ bảo vệ
zh	Chinese 保護模式

Best Rank

English: #98306 01.2008

Global: #81630 12.2008

Best Rank

English: #5640 08.2003

Global: #12894 08.2003

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