Two Generals' Problem

Two Generals' Problem - thought experiment: 2 generals can talk to each other by sending a messenger through enemy territory; how can they agree on time of attack, if any messenger could be captured?. Article "Two Generals' Problem" in English Wikipedia has 22.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Two Generals' Problem", its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in English Wikipedia and cited 87 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14610 in February 2020
• Global: #40941 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14606 in July 2008
• Global: #26600 in July 2008

There are 14 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	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		33.3635
2	Chinese (zh) 两军问题		24.2482
3	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		22.7795
4	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos dois generais		19.302
5	Arabic (ar) معضلة الجنرالين		19.0294
6	Spanish (es) Problema de los dos generales		18.4436
7	Finnish (fi) Kahden kenraalin ongelma		15.9717
8	Czech (cs) Problém dvou armád		12.5023
9	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		10.0342
10	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		8.4575

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Two Generals' Problem" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		1 308 566
2	Russian (ru) Задача двух генералов		151 062
3	Japanese (ja) 二人の将軍問題		39 865
4	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		35 132
5	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos dois generais		22 926
6	Spanish (es) Problema de los dos generales		20 697
7	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		8 788
8	Chinese (zh) 两军问题		7 729
9	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		5 342
10	Arabic (ar) معضلة الجنرالين		4 309

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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 "Two Generals' Problem" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		5 217
2	Russian (ru) Задача двух генералов		300
3	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		208
4	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos dois generais		122
5	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		115
6	Chinese (zh) 两军问题		110
7	Japanese (ja) 二人の将軍問題		95
8	Spanish (es) Problema de los dos generales		37
9	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		21
10	Finnish (fi) Kahden kenraalin ongelma		16

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

Language versions of the article "Two Generals' Problem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		84
2	Russian (ru) Задача двух генералов		22
3	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		17
4	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		12
5	Arabic (ar) معضلة الجنرالين		9
6	Spanish (es) Problema de los dos generales		7
7	Japanese (ja) 二人の将軍問題		6
8	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		6
9	Czech (cs) Problém dvou armád		5
10	Ukrainian (uk) Задача двох генералів		4

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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 "Two Generals' Problem" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		4
2	Arabic (ar) معضلة الجنرالين		1
3	Czech (cs) Problém dvou armád		0
4	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		0
5	Spanish (es) Problema de los dos generales		0
6	Persian (fa) مسئله دو ژنرال		0
7	Finnish (fi) Kahden kenraalin ongelma		0
8	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		0
9	Japanese (ja) 二人の将軍問題		0
10	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		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 "Two Generals' Problem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Задача двох генералів		30
2	English (en) Two Generals' Problem		28
3	Japanese (ja) 二人の将軍問題		5
4	Arabic (ar) معضلة الجنرالين		4
5	French (fr) Problème des deux généraux		4
6	Korean (ko) 두 장군 문제		4
7	Hebrew (he) בעיית שני הצבאות		3
8	Czech (cs) Problém dvou armád		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos dois generais		2
10	Russian (ru) Задача двух генералов		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معضلة الجنرالين
cs	Czech Problém dvou armád
en	English Two Generals' Problem
es	Spanish Problema de los dos generales
fa	Persian مسئله دو ژنرال
fi	Finnish Kahden kenraalin ongelma
fr	French Problème des deux généraux
he	Hebrew בעיית שני הצבאות
ja	Japanese 二人の将軍問題
ko	Korean 두 장군 문제
pt	Portuguese Problema dos dois generais
ru	Russian Задача двух генералов
uk	Ukrainian Задача двох генералів
zh	Chinese 两军问题

Best Rank

English: #14606 07.2008

Global: #26600 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #14610 02.2020

Global: #40941 02.2020

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