Watering hole attack

Watering hole attack - Computer attack strategy. Article “Watering hole attack” in English Wikipedia has 45.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 16 sections.

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 “Watering hole attack”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 103 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in English Wikipedia and cited 268 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #43774 in December 2023
• Global: #137892 in December 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #103535 in August 2019
• Global: #175761 in August 2019

There are 9 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) Watering hole attack		45.5834
2	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		40.1476
3	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		34.8113
4	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		32.1564
5	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		24.8851
6	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		17.0298
7	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		16.8806
8	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		13.3485
9	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		4.7445

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Watering hole attack" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Watering hole attack		495 562
2	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		108 064
3	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		38 924
4	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		24 269
5	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		12 447
6	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		3 902
7	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		1 344
8	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		1 165
9	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		1 012

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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 "Watering hole attack" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Watering hole attack		1 998
2	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		201
3	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		149
4	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		128
5	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		65
6	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		18
7	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		15
8	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		14
9	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Watering hole attack		55
2	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		22
3	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		6
4	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		6
5	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		5
6	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		5
7	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		2
8	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		1
9	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		1

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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 "Watering hole attack" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		1
2	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		0
3	English (en) Watering hole attack		0
4	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		0
5	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		0
6	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		0
7	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		0
8	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		0
9	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		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 "Watering hole attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 水飲み場型攻撃		130
2	Chinese (zh) 水坑攻击		94
3	English (en) Watering hole attack		23
4	French (fr) Attaque de point d'eau		9
5	Spanish (es) Ataque de abrevadero		5
6	Arabic (ar) هجوم حفرة الري		3
7	Persian (fa) حمله چاله آبیاری		3
8	Hebrew (he) בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)		1
9	Hindi (hi) मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هجوم حفرة الري
en	English Watering hole attack
es	Spanish Ataque de abrevadero
fa	Persian حمله چاله آبیاری
fr	French Attaque de point d'eau
he	Hebrew בור מים (שיטת הדבקה בנוזקת סייבר)
hi	Hindi मैलवेयर हमला के प्रकार
ja	Japanese 水飲み場型攻撃
zh	Chinese 水坑攻击

Best Rank

English: #103535 08.2019

Global: #175761 08.2019

Best Rank

English: #43774 12.2023

Global: #137892 12.2023

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