Software cracking

Quality:

Software cracking - modification of software, often to use it for free. Article “Software cracking” in English Wikipedia has 32.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.66 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Software cracking” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Software cracking”, its content was written by 346 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 874 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 225 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #231 in December 2001
• Global: #247 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3226 in January 2008
• Global: #6728 in January 2008

There are 18 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	Czech (cs) Cracking		34.8871
2	English (en) Software cracking		32.0923
3	Turkish (tr) Yazılım kırma		29.5901
4	Malay (ms) Perekahan perisian		20.5794
5	Italian (it) Cracking (informatica)		19.6255
6	French (fr) Craquage (informatique)		18.7009
7	Chinese (zh) 软件破解		17.3462
8	Polish (pl) Cracking		14.8586
9	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 크래킹		14.1123
10	Ukrainian (uk) Злом програмного забезпечення		12.312

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software cracking		3 092 482
2	Japanese (ja) クラッキング (コンピュータ)		948 535
3	Russian (ru) Взлом программного обеспечения		946 928
4	Polish (pl) Cracking		250 287
5	Italian (it) Cracking (informatica)		156 588
6	Persian (fa) کرک کردن نرم‌افزار		146 712
7	Spanish (es) Cracking (software)		83 903
8	Arabic (ar) كراك		76 031
9	Czech (cs) Cracking		48 759
10	Indonesian (id) Perengkahan perangkat lunak		22 407

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) Software cracking		3 368
2	Russian (ru) Взлом программного обеспечения		1 064
3	Japanese (ja) クラッキング (コンピュータ)		760
4	Chinese (zh) 软件破解		182
5	Persian (fa) کرک کردن نرم‌افزار		157
6	Italian (it) Cracking (informatica)		120
7	Polish (pl) Cracking		109
8	French (fr) Craquage (informatique)		69
9	Spanish (es) Cracking (software)		51
10	Indonesian (id) Perengkahan perangkat lunak		42

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software cracking		346
2	Russian (ru) Взлом программного обеспечения		159
3	Italian (it) Cracking (informatica)		106
4	Polish (pl) Cracking		78
5	Japanese (ja) クラッキング (コンピュータ)		55
6	Persian (fa) کرک کردن نرم‌افزار		41
7	Czech (cs) Cracking		22
8	Spanish (es) Cracking (software)		13
9	French (fr) Craquage (informatique)		12
10	Arabic (ar) كراك		8

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) Software cracking		3
2	Arabic (ar) كراك		0
3	Czech (cs) Cracking		0
4	Spanish (es) Cracking (software)		0
5	Persian (fa) کرک کردن نرم‌افزار		0
6	French (fr) Craquage (informatique)		0
7	Indonesian (id) Perengkahan perangkat lunak		0
8	Italian (it) Cracking (informatica)		0
9	Japanese (ja) クラッキング (コンピュータ)		0
10	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 크래킹		0

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

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