Philip Zimmermann

Phil Zimmermann - creator of Pretty Good Privacy. Article “Philip Zimmermann” in Dutch Wikipedia has 3.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Philip Zimmermann”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 587 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 585 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #7800 in March 2017
• Global: #149 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #93209 in December 2009
• Global: #136591 in August 2013

There are 22 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) Phil Zimmermann		47.5801
2	Catalan (ca) Phil Zimmermann		47.3533
3	Greek (el) Φιλ Ζίμερμαν		41.4464
4	Ukrainian (uk) Філ Циммерманн		37.6384
5	French (fr) Philip Zimmermann		33.8515
6	Russian (ru) Циммерман, Филипп		29.1672
7	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		28.1923
8	Czech (cs) Phil Zimmermann		24.2112
9	Arabic (ar) فيل زيمرمان		23.0996
10	Indonesian (id) Phil Zimmermann		20.546

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Philip Zimmermann" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phil Zimmermann		848 873
2	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		113 986
3	Russian (ru) Циммерман, Филипп		89 023
4	Spanish (es) Phil Zimmermann		73 617
5	French (fr) Philip Zimmermann		73 450
6	Italian (it) Phil Zimmermann		36 724
7	Japanese (ja) フィル・ジマーマン		28 826
8	Portuguese (pt) Phil Zimmermann		17 964
9	Dutch (nl) Philip Zimmermann		17 462
10	Chinese (zh) 菲爾·齊默爾曼		11 637

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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 "Philip Zimmermann" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phil Zimmermann		2 265
2	French (fr) Philip Zimmermann		305
3	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		224
4	Russian (ru) Циммерман, Филипп		181
5	Spanish (es) Phil Zimmermann		147
6	Japanese (ja) フィル・ジマーマン		109
7	Chinese (zh) 菲爾·齊默爾曼		96
8	Italian (it) Phil Zimmermann		78
9	Portuguese (pt) Phil Zimmermann		47
10	Dutch (nl) Philip Zimmermann		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phil Zimmermann		161
2	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		56
3	French (fr) Philip Zimmermann		55
4	Russian (ru) Циммерман, Филипп		46
5	Italian (it) Phil Zimmermann		41
6	Hebrew (he) פיל צימרמן		30
7	Hungarian (hu) Philip R. Zimmermann		25
8	Spanish (es) Phil Zimmermann		23
9	Dutch (nl) Philip Zimmermann		23
10	Norwegian (no) Philip Zimmermann		22

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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 "Philip Zimmermann" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) フィル・ジマーマン		1
2	Arabic (ar) فيل زيمرمان		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Filipp Zimmermann		0
4	Catalan (ca) Phil Zimmermann		0
5	Czech (cs) Phil Zimmermann		0
6	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		0
7	Greek (el) Φιλ Ζίμερμαν		0
8	English (en) Phil Zimmermann		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Philip Zimmermann		0
10	Spanish (es) Phil Zimmermann		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 "Philip Zimmermann" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Phil Zimmermann		165
2	Portuguese (pt) Phil Zimmermann		78
3	Russian (ru) Циммерман, Филипп		62
4	French (fr) Philip Zimmermann		61
5	Chinese (zh) 菲爾·齊默爾曼		50
6	German (de) Phil Zimmermann		26
7	Spanish (es) Phil Zimmermann		19
8	Ukrainian (uk) Філ Циммерманн		18
9	Italian (it) Phil Zimmermann		17
10	Japanese (ja) フィル・ジマーマン		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فيل زيمرمان
az	Azerbaijani Filipp Zimmermann
ca	Catalan Phil Zimmermann
cs	Czech Phil Zimmermann
de	German Phil Zimmermann
el	Greek Φιλ Ζίμερμαν
en	English Phil Zimmermann
eo	Esperanto Philip Zimmermann
es	Spanish Phil Zimmermann
fa	Persian فیل زیمرمن
fr	French Philip Zimmermann
he	Hebrew פיל צימרמן
hu	Hungarian Philip R. Zimmermann
id	Indonesian Phil Zimmermann
it	Italian Phil Zimmermann
ja	Japanese フィル・ジマーマン
nl	Dutch Philip Zimmermann
no	Norwegian Philip Zimmermann
pt	Portuguese Phil Zimmermann
ru	Russian Циммерман, Филипп
uk	Ukrainian Філ Циммерманн
zh	Chinese 菲爾·齊默爾曼

Best Rank

Dutch: #93209 12.2009

Global: #136591 08.2013

Best Rank

Dutch: #7800 03.2017

Global: #149 01.2001

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