Honeypot (computing)

Honeypot - computer security mechanism; consists of data that appears to be a legitimate part of the site, but is actually isolated and monitored, and that seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers, who are then blocked and/or analyzed. Article “Honeypot (computing)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.8 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 “Honeypot (computing)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 906 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 775 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1157 in January 2024
• Global: #9438 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #53644 in January 2024
• Global: #20796 in August 2015

There are 28 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) Honeypot (computing)		55.4937
2	Estonian (et) Meepurk (arvutiteadus)		53.5856
3	Spanish (es) Honeypot		40.0969
4	Portuguese (pt) Pote de mel (computação)		38.7881
5	Catalan (ca) Esquer (informàtica)		37.6054
6	Turkish (tr) Bal küpü		31.9294
7	Slovenian (sl) Honeypot (detekcijski sistem)		31.3521
8	German (de) Honeypot		26.9298
9	Croatian (hr) Honeypot		26.6773
10	Italian (it) Honeypot		26.0347

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Honeypot (computing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honeypot (computing)		4 351 985
2	German (de) Honeypot		652 514
3	Japanese (ja) ハニーポット		450 912
4	Spanish (es) Honeypot		422 426
5	French (fr) Honeypot		287 665
6	Russian (ru) Ханипот		258 757
7	Italian (it) Honeypot		174 137
8	Chinese (zh) 蜜罐 (電腦科學)		122 684
9	Portuguese (pt) Pote de mel (computação)		116 171
10	Polish (pl) Honeypot		116 012

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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 "Honeypot (computing)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honeypot (computing)		5 634
2	German (de) Honeypot		1 037
3	Japanese (ja) ハニーポット		478
4	French (fr) Honeypot		382
5	Chinese (zh) 蜜罐 (電腦科學)		344
6	Spanish (es) Honeypot		329
7	Polish (pl) Honeypot		234
8	Russian (ru) Ханипот		227
9	Italian (it) Honeypot		177
10	Persian (fa) هانی‌پات		117

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Honeypot (computing)		326
2	German (de) Honeypot		125
3	French (fr) Honeypot		67
4	Italian (it) Honeypot		45
5	Japanese (ja) ハニーポット		43
6	Russian (ru) Ханипот		34
7	Spanish (es) Honeypot		30
8	Persian (fa) هانی‌پات		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Pote de mel (computação)		24
10	Dutch (nl) Honeypot (informatica)		23

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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 "Honeypot (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Honeypot		2
2	English (en) Honeypot (computing)		2
3	Arabic (ar) هوني بوت		1
4	Catalan (ca) Esquer (informàtica)		1
5	Basque (eu) Honeypot		1
6	Persian (fa) هانی‌پات		1
7	Indonesian (id) Honeypot		1
8	Italian (it) Honeypot		1
9	Korean (ko) 허니팟		1
10	Czech (cs) Honeypot		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 "Honeypot (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ハニーポット		181
2	English (en) Honeypot (computing)		135
3	French (fr) Honeypot		78
4	Ukrainian (uk) Honeypot		50
5	Persian (fa) هانی‌پات		49
6	Russian (ru) Ханипот		47
7	German (de) Honeypot		42
8	Arabic (ar) هوني بوت		41
9	Korean (ko) 허니팟		39
10	Chinese (zh) 蜜罐 (電腦科學)		26

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هوني بوت
ca	Catalan Esquer (informàtica)
cs	Czech Honeypot
de	German Honeypot
en	English Honeypot (computing)
es	Spanish Honeypot
et	Estonian Meepurk (arvutiteadus)
eu	Basque Honeypot
fa	Persian هانی‌پات
fi	Finnish Hunajapurkki
fr	French Honeypot
he	Hebrew מלכודת דבש (מחשבים)
hr	Croatian Honeypot
hu	Hungarian Mézesbödön (számítástechnika)
id	Indonesian Honeypot
it	Italian Honeypot
ja	Japanese ハニーポット
ko	Korean 허니팟
nl	Dutch Honeypot (informatica)
pl	Polish Honeypot
pt	Portuguese Pote de mel (computação)
ru	Russian Ханипот
simple	Simple English Honeypot (computing)
sl	Slovenian Honeypot (detekcijski sistem)
th	Thai ฮันนีพอต
tr	Turkish Bal küpü
uk	Ukrainian Honeypot
zh	Chinese 蜜罐 (電腦科學)

Best Rank

Simple English: #53644 01.2024

Global: #20796 08.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #1157 01.2024

Global: #9438 03.2005

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