William Binney

William Edward Binney - former U.S. intelligence official and cryptoanalyst; whistleblower. Article “William Binney” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “William Binney”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 252 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 50 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 347 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #19046 in May 2014
• Global: #10365 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #154210 in December 2016
• Global: #34854 in June 2013

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) William Binney (intelligence official)		65.7742
2	German (de) William Binney		31.6025
3	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		31.4841
4	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		28.0571
5	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		21.6149
6	Catalan (ca) William Binney		16.7134
7	French (fr) William Binney		13.5794
8	Danish (da) William Binney		12.7648
9	Spanish (es) William Binney		12.206

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Binney (intelligence official)		928 682
2	German (de) William Binney		62 392
3	French (fr) William Binney		30 404
4	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		30 057
5	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		9 224
6	Spanish (es) William Binney		8 454
7	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		3 294
8	Danish (da) William Binney		1 634
9	Catalan (ca) William Binney		967

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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 "William Binney" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Binney (intelligence official)		2 490
2	German (de) William Binney		109
3	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		52
4	French (fr) William Binney		49
5	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		33
6	Spanish (es) William Binney		31
7	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		15
8	Danish (da) William Binney		10
9	Catalan (ca) William Binney		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Binney (intelligence official)		147
2	German (de) William Binney		45
3	French (fr) William Binney		22
4	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		15
5	Danish (da) William Binney		5
6	Spanish (es) William Binney		5
7	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		5
8	Catalan (ca) William Binney		4
9	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		4

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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 "William Binney" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) William Binney		0
2	Danish (da) William Binney		0
3	German (de) William Binney		0
4	English (en) William Binney (intelligence official)		0
5	Spanish (es) William Binney		0
6	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		0
7	French (fr) William Binney		0
8	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		0
9	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		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 "William Binney" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) William Binney (intelligence official)		130
2	French (fr) William Binney		51
3	Portuguese (pt) William Binney		50
4	Persian (fa) ویلیام بینی		46
5	Russian (ru) Бинни, Уильям		41
6	German (de) William Binney		17
7	Spanish (es) William Binney		7
8	Catalan (ca) William Binney		4
9	Danish (da) William Binney		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan William Binney
da	Danish William Binney
de	German William Binney
en	English William Binney (intelligence official)
es	Spanish William Binney
fa	Persian ویلیام بینی
fr	French William Binney
pt	Portuguese William Binney
ru	Russian Бинни, Уильям

Best Rank

Portuguese: #154210 12.2016

Global: #34854 06.2013

Best Rank

Portuguese: #19046 05.2014

Global: #10365 06.2013

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