Skytale

Scytale - encryption tool used to perform a transposition cipher. Article “Skytale” in Polish Wikipedia has 24.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Skytale”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Polish Wikipedia and edited by 482 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 409 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #5493 in April 2010
• Global: #20624 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #70690 in October 2008
• Global: #150241 in October 2019

There are 26 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	Russian (ru) Скитала		42.4552
2	Italian (it) Scitala		31.8425
3	Polish (pl) Skytale		24.4798
4	Turkish (tr) Scytale		21.1767
5	Arabic (ar) سكيتال		21.1476
6	English (en) Scytale		18.4212
7	Greek (el) Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη		16.224
8	Catalan (ca) Escítala		15.1324
9	Spanish (es) Escítala		14.8374
10	French (fr) Scytale		12.8355

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scytale		725 714
2	German (de) Skytale		255 500
3	Spanish (es) Escítala		164 893
4	Russian (ru) Скитала		158 650
5	French (fr) Scytale		144 262
6	Italian (it) Scitala		81 927
7	Polish (pl) Skytale		56 341
8	Korean (ko) 스키테일		46 100
9	Japanese (ja) スキュタレー		42 668
10	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		38 976

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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 "Skytale" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scytale		3 917
2	French (fr) Scytale		710
3	German (de) Skytale		678
4	Spanish (es) Escítala		595
5	Russian (ru) Скитала		391
6	Japanese (ja) スキュタレー		255
7	Italian (it) Scitala		249
8	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		220
9	Polish (pl) Skytale		155
10	Korean (ko) 스키테일		132

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Skytale		88
2	English (en) Scytale		75
3	French (fr) Scytale		51
4	Italian (it) Scitala		40
5	Russian (ru) Скитала		36
6	Dutch (nl) Scytale (cryptografie)		24
7	Danish (da) Skytale		21
8	Spanish (es) Escítala		21
9	Vietnamese (vi) Gậy mật mã		17
10	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		15

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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 "Skytale" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scytale		1
2	Portuguese (pt) Cítala		1
3	Arabic (ar) سكيتال		0
4	Catalan (ca) Escítala		0
5	Czech (cs) Skytalé		0
6	Danish (da) Skytale		0
7	German (de) Skytale		0
8	Greek (el) Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη		0
9	Spanish (es) Escítala		0
10	French (fr) Scytale		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 "Skytale" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Scytale		86
2	French (fr) Scytale		67
3	Italian (it) Scitala		46
4	Chinese (zh) 密碼棒		33
5	Dutch (nl) Scytale (cryptografie)		23
6	Vietnamese (vi) Gậy mật mã		22
7	Ukrainian (uk) Скитала		20
8	Hungarian (hu) Szkütale		18
9	German (de) Skytale		13
10	Spanish (es) Escítala		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سكيتال
ca	Catalan Escítala
cs	Czech Skytalé
da	Danish Skytale
de	German Skytale
el	Greek Κρυπτεία σκυτάλη
en	English Scytale
es	Spanish Escítala
fr	French Scytale
gl	Galician Escítala
hu	Hungarian Szkütale
it	Italian Scitala
ja	Japanese スキュタレー
ko	Korean 스키테일
lt	Lithuanian Skytalė
nl	Dutch Scytale (cryptografie)
no	Norwegian Skytale
pl	Polish Skytale
pt	Portuguese Cítala
ro	Romanian Schitală
ru	Russian Скитала
sv	Swedish Skytale
tr	Turkish Scytale
uk	Ukrainian Скитала
vi	Vietnamese Gậy mật mã
zh	Chinese 密碼棒

Best Rank

Polish: #70690 10.2008

Global: #150241 10.2019

Best Rank

Polish: #5493 04.2010

Global: #20624 11.2014

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