PGP

Quality:

Pretty Good Privacy - computer program for data encryption, primarily in email (PGP). This software is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 91^st most popular software in Russian Wikipedia. Article “PGP” in Russian Wikipedia has 35.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.86 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 91^st most popular in software in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 63^rd most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “PGP”, its content was written by 93 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 1845 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pretty Good Privacy is on the 91^st place in local ranking of software in Russian Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 120 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 2060 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #95 in March 2005
• Global: #57 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #3215 in March 2008
• Global: #7894 in January 2015

There are 38 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) Pretty Good Privacy		51.3119
2	Chinese (zh) PGP		45.0355
3	Russian (ru) PGP		35.3615
4	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		30.9473
5	Basque (eu) PGP		30.3337
6	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		29.4753
7	Persian (fa) پی‌جی‌پی (نرم‌افزار)		29.4122
8	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		28.7092
9	Vietnamese (vi) Pretty Good Privacy		25.5612
10	Hebrew (he) PGP		24.7548

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		9 288 928
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		1 782 714
3	Russian (ru) PGP		1 023 068
4	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		640 991
5	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		621 480
6	Japanese (ja) Pretty Good Privacy		337 389
7	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		302 956
8	Chinese (zh) PGP		291 620
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		272 957
10	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		224 654

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		18 250
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		2 551
3	Russian (ru) PGP		1 365
4	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		1 293
5	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		754
6	Chinese (zh) PGP		622
7	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		523
8	Japanese (ja) Pretty Good Privacy		517
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		491
10	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		364

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		656
2	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		203
3	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		110
4	Italian (it) Pretty Good Privacy		107
5	Russian (ru) PGP		93
6	Spanish (es) Pretty Good Privacy		70
7	Dutch (nl) Pretty Good Privacy		65
8	Chinese (zh) PGP		59
9	Polish (pl) Pretty Good Privacy		43
10	Norwegian (no) Pretty Good Privacy		38

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pretty Good Privacy		3
2	French (fr) Pretty Good Privacy		1
3	Arabic (ar) بي جي بي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) PGP		0
5	Belarusian (be) PGP		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) PGP		0
7	Catalan (ca) Pretty Good Privacy		0
8	Czech (cs) Pretty Good Privacy		0
9	Danish (da) Pretty Good Privacy		0
10	German (de) Pretty Good Privacy		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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