Source protection

Source protection - journalist right. Article "Source protection" in English Wikipedia has 74 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 123 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Source protection", its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 196 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in English Wikipedia and cited 303 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #42940 in December 2006
• Global: #49868 in May 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #255774 in September 2018
• Global: #283678 in March 2016

There are 16 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	English (en) Source protection		73.9502
2	Swedish (sv) Källskydd		27.1105
3	Dutch (nl) Bronnengeheim		26.3951
4	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφικό απόρρητο		23.7879
5	Norwegian (no) Kildevern		22.244
6	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		21.9655
7	Romanian (ro) Dreptul reporterului la confidențialitatea surselor		21.0223
8	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		20.5968
9	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		19.1675
10	Danish (da) Kildebeskyttelse		19.0538

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Source protection" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source protection		280 498
2	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		140 979
3	Polish (pl) Tajemnica dziennikarska		49 401
4	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		33 135
5	Swedish (sv) Källskydd		28 238
6	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		24 503
7	Dutch (nl) Bronnengeheim		14 833
8	Arabic (ar) حماية المصادر		9 778
9	Danish (da) Kildebeskyttelse		9 387
10	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφικό απόρρητο		8 733

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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 "Source protection" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source protection		978
2	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		168
3	Swedish (sv) Källskydd		100
4	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		86
5	Polish (pl) Tajemnica dziennikarska		73
6	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		72
7	Norwegian (no) Kildevern		52
8	Danish (da) Kildebeskyttelse		44
9	Korean (ko) 취재원 비닉권		39
10	Serbian (sr) Zaštita izvora		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Source protection		61
2	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		27
3	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		14
4	Dutch (nl) Bronnengeheim		13
5	Polish (pl) Tajemnica dziennikarska		13
6	Norwegian (no) Kildevern		12
7	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφικό απόρρητο		11
8	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		11
9	Serbian (sr) Zaštita izvora		8
10	Arabic (ar) حماية المصادر		5

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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 "Source protection" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حماية المصادر		0
2	Danish (da) Kildebeskyttelse		0
3	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφικό απόρρητο		0
4	English (en) Source protection		0
5	Spanish (es) Protección de la fuente		0
6	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		0
7	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		0
8	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		0
9	Korean (ko) 취재원 비닉권		0
10	Dutch (nl) Bronnengeheim		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 "Source protection" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Protection des sources d'information des journalistes		86
2	Swedish (sv) Källskydd		83
3	English (en) Source protection		41
4	Hebrew (he) חיסיון עיתונאי		28
5	Finnish (fi) Lähdesuoja		14
6	Danish (da) Kildebeskyttelse		11
7	Dutch (nl) Bronnengeheim		10
8	Arabic (ar) حماية المصادر		7
9	Spanish (es) Protección de la fuente		4
10	Korean (ko) 취재원 비닉권		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حماية المصادر
da	Danish Kildebeskyttelse
el	Greek Δημοσιογραφικό απόρρητο
en	English Source protection
es	Spanish Protección de la fuente
fi	Finnish Lähdesuoja
fr	French Protection des sources d'information des journalistes
he	Hebrew חיסיון עיתונאי
ko	Korean 취재원 비닉권
nl	Dutch Bronnengeheim
no	Norwegian Kildevern
pl	Polish Tajemnica dziennikarska
ro	Romanian Dreptul reporterului la confidențialitatea surselor
sr	Serbian Zaštita izvora
sv	Swedish Källskydd
uk	Ukrainian Захист джерела

Best Rank

English: #255774 09.2018

Global: #283678 03.2016

Best Rank

English: #42940 12.2006

Global: #49868 05.2018

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