Lock

Quality:

Lock - mechanical or electronic fastening device. Article “Lock” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Lock”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4706^th place) and edited by 2323 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2674 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #66 in July 2016
• Global: #5755 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1244 in April 2020
• Global: #24547 in December 2014

There are 42 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	Catalan (ca) Pany		68.3921
2	English (en) Lock and key		61.1923
3	German (de) Schloss (Technik)		53.8757
4	Arabic (ar) قفل		45.9189
5	Italian (it) Serratura		43.9655
6	Chinese (zh) 锁		42.2647
7	Japanese (ja) 錠前		41.9408
8	Basque (eu) Sarraila		41.3517
9	Swedish (sv) Lås		41.1766
10	Persian (fa) قفل		40.4334

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lock and key		3 801 386
2	German (de) Schloss (Technik)		929 078
3	Spanish (es) Cerradura		629 249
4	French (fr) Serrure		626 835
5	Russian (ru) Замок (устройство)		534 030
6	Japanese (ja) 錠前		420 744
7	Dutch (nl) Slot (sluiting)		269 892
8	Chinese (zh) 锁		192 017
9	Swedish (sv) Lås		180 395
10	Italian (it) Serratura		168 141

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) Lock and key		11 772
2	German (de) Schloss (Technik)		1 174
3	Simple English (simple) Lock		1 160
4	Japanese (ja) 錠前		1 038
5	Russian (ru) Замок (устройство)		824
6	Spanish (es) Cerradura		821
7	Chinese (zh) 锁		792
8	French (fr) Serrure		709
9	Arabic (ar) قفل		392
10	Italian (it) Serratura		317

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lock and key		900
2	German (de) Schloss (Technik)		237
3	French (fr) Serrure		136
4	Russian (ru) Замок (устройство)		109
5	Dutch (nl) Slot (sluiting)		93
6	Spanish (es) Cerradura		76
7	Hebrew (he) מנעול		70
8	Swedish (sv) Lås		64
9	Italian (it) Serratura		57
10	Finnish (fi) Lukko		56

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	German (de) Schloss (Technik)		2
2	Turkish (tr) Kilit ve anahtar		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Qıfıl		1
4	Persian (fa) قفل		1
5	Japanese (ja) 錠前		1
6	Romanian (ro) Broască (mecanism)		1
7	Russian (ru) Замок (устройство)		1
8	Arabic (ar) قفل		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Катинар		0
10	Catalan (ca) Pany		0

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

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