Computer virus

Quality:

Computer virus - type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. Article “Computer virus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.63 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1747^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1026^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1576^th most popular in all topics.

The 863^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2871^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 714^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Computer virus” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (714^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Computer virus”, its content was written by 83 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1026^th place) and edited by 6792 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (863^rd place).

The article is cited 51 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6802 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15 in January 2011
• Global: #35 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in August 2008
• Global: #6 in December 2012

There are 53 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, 2026 (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) Computer virus		84.0771
2	Korean (ko) 컴퓨터 바이러스		73.2327
3	German (de) Computervirus		53.1431
4	Tamil (ta) கணினி நச்சுநிரல்		52.3107
5	Hindi (hi) कम्प्यूटर वायरस		50.6529
6	Estonian (et) Arvutiviirus		48.7718
7	Malay (ms) Virus komputer		45.569
8	Persian (fa) ویروس رایانه‌ای		44.6878
9	Catalan (ca) Virus informàtic		41.8919
10	Chinese (zh) 计算机病毒		41.0175

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Computer virus		28 192 716
2	Spanish (es) Virus informático		16 239 410
3	Russian (ru) Компьютерный вирус		4 172 949
4	Portuguese (pt) Vírus de computador		3 540 562
5	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルス		2 800 212
6	Polish (pl) Wirus komputerowy		2 432 092
7	German (de) Computervirus		2 385 923
8	French (fr) Virus informatique		2 159 514
9	Arabic (ar) فيروس حاسوب		1 996 390
10	Thai (th) ไวรัสคอมพิวเตอร์		1 253 790

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) Computer virus		14 213
2	Russian (ru) Компьютерный вирус		3 115
3	Spanish (es) Virus informático		2 848
4	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルス		1 397
5	German (de) Computervirus		1 275
6	Chinese (zh) 计算机病毒		875
7	French (fr) Virus informatique		777
8	Romanian (ro) Virus informatic		710
9	Polish (pl) Wirus komputerowy		661
10	Italian (it) Virus (informatica)		575

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Computer virus		1 751
2	German (de) Computervirus		566
3	Spanish (es) Virus informático		407
4	French (fr) Virus informatique		295
5	Dutch (nl) Computervirus		247
6	Russian (ru) Компьютерный вирус		246
7	Italian (it) Virus (informatica)		235
8	Polish (pl) Wirus komputerowy		229
9	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルス		206
10	Portuguese (pt) Vírus de computador		183

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	Russian (ru) Компьютерный вирус		4
2	Japanese (ja) コンピュータウイルス		3
3	Spanish (es) Virus informático		2
4	Simple English (simple) Computer virus		2
5	Arabic (ar) فيروس حاسوب		1
6	Indonesian (id) Virus komputer		1
7	Korean (ko) 컴퓨터 바이러스		1
8	Romanian (ro) Virus informatic		1
9	Turkish (tr) Bilgisayar virüsü		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Virus (máy tính)		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information