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Shred (Unix)

Quality:

Shred - Unix command to securely delete files and devices. Article “Shred (Unix)” in English Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Shred (Unix)”, its content was written by 36 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 77 times in English Wikipedia and cited 344 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #146467 in December 2016
  • Global: #139443 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #384611 in January 2010
  • Global: #481570 in January 2010

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
1Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
19.4819
2English (en)
Shred (Unix)
19.0857
3Russian (ru)
Shred
14.3883
4French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
10.4284
5German (de)
Shred
5.9924
6Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
3.5858
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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 "Shred (Unix)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shred (Unix)
212 270
2French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
38 400
3German (de)
Shred
28 565
4Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
12 361
5Russian (ru)
Shred
8 690
6Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
7 301
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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 "Shred (Unix)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shred (Unix)
1 297
2German (de)
Shred
101
3French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
56
4Russian (ru)
Shred
52
5Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
27
6Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
20
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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 "Shred (Unix)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shred (Unix)
36
2German (de)
Shred
31
3French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
22
4Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
22
5Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
7
6Russian (ru)
Shred
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 "Shred (Unix)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Shred
0
2English (en)
Shred (Unix)
0
3French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
0
4Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
0
5Russian (ru)
Shred
0
6Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
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 "Shred (Unix)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Shred
171
2English (en)
Shred (Unix)
77
3German (de)
Shred
54
4French (fr)
Shred (commande unix)
21
5Italian (it)
Shred (Unix)
16
6Chinese (zh)
Shred (Unix)
5
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Shred
enEnglish
Shred (Unix)
frFrench
Shred (commande unix)
itItalian
Shred (Unix)
ruRussian
Shred
zhChinese
Shred (Unix)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#384611
01.2010
Global:
#481570
01.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#146467
12.2016
Global:
#139443
09.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shred from Wikipedia articles about GNU Core Utilities, List of data-erasing software, Srm, Eraser and Shredding. Whereas reading the article about Shred people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Gutmann method, BleachBit, Hdparm, Data erasure and Wipe.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

de: Shred
ru: Shred

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