Fork (blockchain)

Fork - change in consensus rules of a blockchain; if contentious, can result in multiple permanent alternative chains. Article “Fork (blockchain)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 26 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Dutch) language version.

Since the creation of article “Fork (blockchain)”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 160 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 760 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #1569 in April 2023
• Global: #31120 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #160064 in April 2023
• Global: #94733 in May 2021

There are 15 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) Fork (blockchain)		32.8796
2	Turkish (tr) Çatal (blok zinciri)		31.9414
3	Ukrainian (uk) Форк (блокчейн)		31.3285
4	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		30.5465
5	Hungarian (hu) Fork (blokklánc)		29.9882
6	Dutch (nl) Fork (blockchain)		25.9536
7	Portuguese (pt) Hard Fork		25.7954
8	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		24.3281
9	Vietnamese (vi) Fork (blockchain)		22.9281
10	Thai (th) การแยกสาย (บล็อกเชน)		22.1291

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Fork (blockchain)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (blockchain)		433 255
2	Persian (fa) فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)		19 128
3	Chinese (zh) 分叉		18 458
4	Portuguese (pt) Hard Fork		17 508
5	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		15 989
6	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		13 188
7	Polish (pl) Fork (blockchain)		6 441
8	Turkish (tr) Çatal (blok zinciri)		3 948
9	Vietnamese (vi) Fork (blockchain)		1 511
10	Dutch (nl) Fork (blockchain)		754

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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 "Fork (blockchain)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork (blockchain)		5 123
2	Chinese (zh) 分叉		107
3	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		65
4	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		47
5	Polish (pl) Fork (blockchain)		47
6	Persian (fa) فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)		36
7	Portuguese (pt) Hard Fork		27
8	Turkish (tr) Çatal (blok zinciri)		25
9	Vietnamese (vi) Fork (blockchain)		25
10	Indonesian (id) Fork (blockchain)		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork (blockchain)		85
2	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		13
3	Persian (fa) فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)		12
4	Portuguese (pt) Hard Fork		11
5	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		7
6	Polish (pl) Fork (blockchain)		7
7	Dutch (nl) Fork (blockchain)		5
8	Thai (th) การแยกสาย (บล็อกเชน)		4
9	Hungarian (hu) Fork (blokklánc)		3
10	Turkish (tr) Çatal (blok zinciri)		3

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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 "Fork (blockchain)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork (blockchain)		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Форк (блокчейн)		1
3	Arabic (ar) تفرع (بلوكتشين)		0
4	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		0
5	Persian (fa) فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)		0
6	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Fork (blokklánc)		0
8	Indonesian (id) Fork (blockchain)		0
9	Dutch (nl) Fork (blockchain)		0
10	Polish (pl) Fork (blockchain)		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 "Fork (blockchain)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fork (blockchain)		175
2	French (fr) Fork (blockchain)		96
3	Chinese (zh) 分叉		87
4	Arabic (ar) تفرع (بلوكتشين)		84
5	Turkish (tr) Çatal (blok zinciri)		74
6	Ukrainian (uk) Форк (блокчейн)		69
7	Persian (fa) فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)		48
8	Hungarian (hu) Fork (blokklánc)		43
9	Spanish (es) Bifurcación (blockchain)		31
10	Thai (th) การแยกสาย (บล็อกเชน)		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تفرع (بلوكتشين)
en	English Fork (blockchain)
es	Spanish Bifurcación (blockchain)
fa	Persian فورک (زنجیره بلوکی)
fr	French Fork (blockchain)
hu	Hungarian Fork (blokklánc)
id	Indonesian Fork (blockchain)
nl	Dutch Fork (blockchain)
pl	Polish Fork (blockchain)
pt	Portuguese Hard Fork
th	Thai การแยกสาย (บล็อกเชน)
tr	Turkish Çatal (blok zinciri)
uk	Ukrainian Форк (блокчейн)
vi	Vietnamese Fork (blockchain)
zh	Chinese 分叉

Best Rank

Dutch: #160064 04.2023

Global: #94733 05.2021

Best Rank

Dutch: #1569 04.2023

Global: #31120 03.2018

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