Hardening

Hardening - process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one. Article “Hardening” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 1.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.09 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Hardening”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 147 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #11345 in May 2012
• Global: #40530 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #55982 in September 2021
• Global: #165213 in April 2015

There are 10 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	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		19.2796
2	German (de) Härten (Computer)		17.9854
3	Italian (it) Hardening		13.7047
4	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		12.2851
5	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		10.7055
6	English (en) Hardening (computing)		6.42
7	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		5.4409
8	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		2.2392
9	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		1.7976
10	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		1.7973

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardening (computing)		887 683
2	German (de) Härten (Computer)		183 341
3	Italian (it) Hardening		82 297
4	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		59 118
5	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		54 128
6	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		44 813
7	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		43 620
8	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		5 158
9	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		5 147
10	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		1 980

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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 "Hardening" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardening (computing)		1 500
2	German (de) Härten (Computer)		813
3	Italian (it) Hardening		231
4	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		134
5	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		133
6	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		83
7	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		73
8	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		54
9	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		28
10	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		19

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hardening (computing)		65
2	German (de) Härten (Computer)		55
3	Italian (it) Hardening		22
4	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		18
5	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		17
6	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		10
7	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		6
8	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		5
9	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		5
10	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		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 "Hardening" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		1
2	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		0
3	German (de) Härten (Computer)		0
4	English (en) Hardening (computing)		0
5	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		0
6	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		0
7	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		0
8	Italian (it) Hardening		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		0
10	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		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 "Hardening" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hardening (computing)		41
2	Chinese (zh) 安全強化		40
3	German (de) Härten (Computer)		25
4	French (fr) Durcissement (informatique)		16
5	Italian (it) Hardening		8
6	Spanish (es) Endurecimiento (informática)		5
7	Japanese (ja) ハードニング		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Hardening		4
9	Hebrew (he) הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)		2
10	Czech (cs) Kalení (výpočetní technika)		1

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Kalení (výpočetní technika)
de	German Härten (Computer)
en	English Hardening (computing)
es	Spanish Endurecimiento (informática)
fr	French Durcissement (informatique)
he	Hebrew הקשחה (אבטחת מידע)
it	Italian Hardening
ja	Japanese ハードニング
pt	Portuguese Hardening
zh	Chinese 安全強化

Best Rank

Portuguese: #55982 09.2021

Global: #165213 04.2015

Best Rank

Portuguese: #11345 05.2012

Global: #40530 11.2004

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