Fork bomb

Fork bomb - denial-of-service attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation. Article “Fork bomb” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Fork bomb”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 654 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #996 in April 2013
• Global: #11816 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #29193 in April 2008
• Global: #21495 in March 2025

There are 18 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) Fork bomb		37.4764
2	Turkish (tr) Fork Bomb		36.3626
3	Korean (ko) 포크 폭탄		35.9448
4	Indonesian (id) Fork bomb		33.6404
5	Croatian (hr) Fork bomba		27.2965
6	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		22.5524
7	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		21.2292
8	Italian (it) Fork bomb		17.0652
9	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		13.7039
10	German (de) Forkbomb		12.5786

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork bomb		3 152 369
2	German (de) Forkbomb		283 746
3	French (fr) Fork bomb		254 359
4	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		224 369
5	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		192 676
6	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		138 705
7	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		119 715
8	Italian (it) Fork bomb		84 449
9	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		69 018
10	Czech (cs) Fork bomba		14 398

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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 "Fork bomb" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fork bomb		8 034
2	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		1 236
3	French (fr) Fork bomb		481
4	German (de) Forkbomb		333
5	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		206
6	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		132
7	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		111
8	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		96
9	Italian (it) Fork bomb		85
10	Czech (cs) Fork bomba		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork bomb		341
2	German (de) Forkbomb		54
3	French (fr) Fork bomb		51
4	Italian (it) Fork bomb		49
5	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		43
6	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		31
7	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		16
8	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		16
9	Catalan (ca) Bomba fork		15
10	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		9

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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 "Fork bomb" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fork bomb		2
2	Korean (ko) 포크 폭탄		2
3	Indonesian (id) Fork bomb		1
4	Catalan (ca) Bomba fork		0
5	Czech (cs) Fork bomba		0
6	German (de) Forkbomb		0
7	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		0
8	Persian (fa) فورک بمب		0
9	French (fr) Fork bomb		0
10	Croatian (hr) Fork bomba		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 "Fork bomb" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fork bomb		154
2	Persian (fa) فورک بمب		82
3	Chinese (zh) Fork炸弹		54
4	Korean (ko) 포크 폭탄		9
5	Polish (pl) Fork-bomba		9
6	Japanese (ja) Fork爆弾		7
7	German (de) Forkbomb		6
8	Spanish (es) Bomba fork		5
9	French (fr) Fork bomb		5
10	Russian (ru) Форк-бомба		5

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Bomba fork
cs	Czech Fork bomba
de	German Forkbomb
en	English Fork bomb
es	Spanish Bomba fork
fa	Persian فورک بمب
fr	French Fork bomb
hr	Croatian Fork bomba
id	Indonesian Fork bomb
it	Italian Fork bomb
ja	Japanese Fork爆弾
ko	Korean 포크 폭탄
pl	Polish Fork-bomba
ru	Russian Форк-бомба
simple	Simple English Fork bomb
tr	Turkish Fork Bomb
uk	Ukrainian Fork-бомба
zh	Chinese Fork炸弹

Best Rank

Simple English: #29193 04.2008

Global: #21495 03.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #996 04.2013

Global: #11816 07.2003

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