Rail fence cipher

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Rail fence cipher

Quality:

Rail fence cipher - type of transposition cipher. Article “Rail fence cipher” in English Wikipedia has 16.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.85 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 “Rail fence cipher”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 84 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in English Wikipedia and cited 109 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #41255 in May 2013
  • Global: #136895 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #107788 in March 2022
  • Global: #180931 in March 2022

There are 6 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
1English (en)
Rail fence cipher
16.0783
2Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
14.5212
3Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
11.189
4Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
9.8951
5Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
6.4187
6Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
3.9582
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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 "Rail fence cipher" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Rail fence cipher
717 129
2Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
67 332
3Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
25 379
4Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
16 569
5Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
15 542
6Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
500
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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 "Rail fence cipher" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Rail fence cipher
2 579
2Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
280
3Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
147
4Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
43
5Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
34
6Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
5
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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 "Rail fence cipher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Rail fence cipher
42
2Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
22
3Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
8
4Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
6
5Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
4
6Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
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 "Rail fence cipher" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
0
2English (en)
Rail fence cipher
0
3Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
0
4Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
0
5Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
0
6Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
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 "Rail fence cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Rail fence cipher
70
2Chinese (zh)
籬笆密碼法
29
3Italian (it)
Cifrario a staccionata
5
4Catalan (ca)
Xifratge Rail Fence
2
5Polish (pl)
Szyfr płotkowy
2
6Spanish (es)
Cifrado Rail Fence
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Xifratge Rail Fence
enEnglish
Rail fence cipher
esSpanish
Cifrado Rail Fence
itItalian
Cifrario a staccionata
plPolish
Szyfr płotkowy
zhChinese
籬笆密碼法

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#107788
03.2022
Global:
#180931
03.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#41255
05.2013
Global:
#136895
05.2013

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Rail fence cipher from Wikipedia articles about Jerusalems Lot, Cipher, Transposition cipher, Ciphertext and Grille. Whereas reading the article about Rail fence cipher people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Transposition cipher, Scytale, Classical cipher, Tabula recta and Nihilist cipher.

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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