Social engineering (security)

Quality:

Social engineering - information security concept: psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Article “Social engineering (security)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections.

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 “Social engineering (security)”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1826 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #522 in September 2018
• Global: #3349 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4039 in October 2009
• Global: #12352 in April 2015

There are 43 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) Social engineering (security)		61.113
2	Thai (th) วิศวกรรมสังคม (ความปลอดภัย)		58.6096
3	Uzbek (uz) Ijtimoiy muhandislik (xavfsizlik)		57.7247
4	Slovenian (sl) Socialni inženiring		55.7527
5	Romanian (ro) Inginerie socială		43.0028
6	Finnish (fi) Käyttäjän manipulointi		41.8569
7	Catalan (ca) Enginyeria social (informàtica)		39.8266
8	Russian (ru) Социальная инженерия		38.319
9	Spanish (es) Ingeniería social (seguridad informática)		36.7263
10	Turkish (tr) Sosyal mühendislik		33.8088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Social engineering (security)		6 907 370
2	Spanish (es) Ingeniería social (seguridad informática)		1 540 709
3	Russian (ru) Социальная инженерия		1 402 139
4	German (de) Social Engineering (Sicherheit)		991 587
5	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia social (segurança)		664 431
6	French (fr) Ingénierie sociale (sécurité de l'information)		624 488
7	Japanese (ja) ソーシャル・エンジニアリング		575 968
8	Italian (it) Ingegneria sociale		571 951
9	Chinese (zh) 社会工程学		318 980
10	Arabic (ar) هندسة اجتماعية (أمن)		276 801

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) Social engineering (security)		13 169
2	Russian (ru) Социальная инженерия		1 852
3	German (de) Social Engineering (Sicherheit)		1 353
4	Chinese (zh) 社会工程学		979
5	Japanese (ja) ソーシャル・エンジニアリング		963
6	French (fr) Ingénierie sociale (sécurité de l'information)		882
7	Italian (it) Ingegneria sociale		692
8	Spanish (es) Ingeniería social (seguridad informática)		684
9	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia social (segurança)		501
10	Turkish (tr) Sosyal mühendislik		374

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Social engineering (security)		599
2	German (de) Social Engineering (Sicherheit)		152
3	French (fr) Ingénierie sociale (sécurité de l'information)		137
4	Russian (ru) Социальная инженерия		117
5	Italian (it) Ingegneria sociale		115
6	Spanish (es) Ingeniería social (seguridad informática)		93
7	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia social (segurança)		64
8	Dutch (nl) Social engineering (informatica)		49
9	Japanese (ja) ソーシャル・エンジニアリング		47
10	Arabic (ar) هندسة اجتماعية (أمن)		46

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) Social engineering (security)		2
2	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia social (segurança)		1
3	Romanian (ro) Inginerie socială		1
4	Arabic (ar) هندسة اجتماعية (أمن)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sosial mühəndislik (təhlükəsizlik)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Сацыяльная інжынерыя		0
7	Catalan (ca) Enginyeria social (informàtica)		0
8	Czech (cs) Sociální inženýrství (bezpečnost)		0
9	German (de) Social Engineering (Sicherheit)		0
10	Greek (el) Κοινωνική μηχανική		0

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

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