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Trust, but verify

Quality:

Trust, but verify - Russian proverb. Article “Trust, but verify” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Trust, but verify”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 211 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 85 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #5114 in June 2014
  • Global: #65764 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1255 in July 2024
  • Global: #41866 in June 2019

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Trust, but verify
40.8961
2Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
34.4677
3Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
32.1622
4German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
23.1688
5Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
22.4383
6Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
20.1894
7Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
16.9922
8Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
15.4453
9French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
13.0903
10Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
1.835
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Trust, but verify" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Trust, but verify
1 969 013
2German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
316 626
3French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
34 490
4Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
27 108
5Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
20 099
6Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
14 937
7Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
8 920
8Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
6 507
9Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
5 317
10Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
1 613
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Trust, but verify" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Trust, but verify
9 915
2German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
1 097
3Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
280
4Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
261
5Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
249
6French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
204
7Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
132
8Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
128
9Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
32
10Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Trust, but verify" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Trust, but verify
142
2German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
28
3French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
16
4Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
5
5Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
4
6Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
4
7Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
4
8Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
3
9Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
3
10Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Trust, but verify" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
0
2English (en)
Trust, but verify
0
3Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
0
4Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
0
5French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
0
6Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
0
7Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
0
8Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
0
9Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
0
10Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Trust, but verify" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Portuguese (pt)
Confia, mas confira
44
2English (en)
Trust, but verify
22
3German (de)
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
4
4Persian (fa)
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
4
5French (fr)
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
4
6Simple English (simple)
Trust, but verify
3
7Chinese (zh)
信任,但要核实
2
8Indonesian (id)
Percaya, lalu pastikan
1
9Japanese (ja)
Trust, but verify
1
10Spanish (es)
Confía, pero verifica
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser!
enEnglish
Trust, but verify
esSpanish
Confía, pero verifica
faPersian
اعتماد کن، ولی راستی‌آزمایی کن
frFrench
Faites confiance, mais vérifiez
idIndonesian
Percaya, lalu pastikan
jaJapanese
Trust, but verify
ptPortuguese
Confia, mas confira
simpleSimple English
Trust, but verify
zhChinese
信任,但要核实

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1255
07.2024
Global:
#41866
06.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5114
06.2014
Global:
#65764
04.2023

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Trust, but verify from Wikipedia articles about Zero trust architecture, Jess Cliffe, Appeasement, Distrust and Socialist emulation. Whereas reading the article about Trust, but verify people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Suzanne Massie, Zero trust architecture, Russian proverbs, August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack and Ronald Reagan.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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