Caesar cipher

Quality:

Caesar cipher - simple and widely known encryption technique. Article "Caesar cipher" in English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 25 references and 8 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Caesar cipher" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Caesar cipher", its content was written by 308 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1835 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 135 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1127 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1041 in April 2005
  • Global: #1654 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #18264 in March 2015
  • Global: #11728 in December 2020

There are 46 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 August 1, 2024 (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
1Turkish (tr)
Sezar şifrelemesi
54.6163
2Persian (fa)
رمز سزار
47.329
3English (en)
Caesar cipher
45.6513
4Uzbek (uz)
Sezar shifri
39.9264
5Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de César
38.8108
6Catalan (ca)
Xifratge de Cèsar
38.0565
7Chinese (zh)
凱撒密碼
36.3474
8Polish (pl)
Szyfr Cezara
35.4264
9Croatian (hr)
Cezarova šifra
35.2443
10Vietnamese (vi)
Mật mã Caesar
33.1887
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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 "Caesar cipher" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Caesar cipher
6 013 234
2Russian (ru)
Шифр Цезаря
1 669 164
3German (de)
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
1 365 009
4Spanish (es)
Cifrado César
1 032 550
5Polish (pl)
Szyfr Cezara
853 965
6French (fr)
Chiffrement par décalage
802 811
7Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de César
781 466
8Japanese (ja)
シーザー暗号
757 878
9Chinese (zh)
凱撒密碼
503 842
10Italian (it)
Cifrario di Cesare
494 883
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Caesar cipher" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Caesar cipher
27 127
2Russian (ru)
Шифр Цезаря
8 527
3Vietnamese (vi)
Mật mã Caesar
4 656
4German (de)
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
3 684
5Japanese (ja)
シーザー暗号
3 664
6Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de César
3 446
7Turkish (tr)
Sezar şifrelemesi
2 859
8Spanish (es)
Cifrado César
2 276
9Chinese (zh)
凱撒密碼
2 257
10Italian (it)
Cifrario di Cesare
1 955
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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 "Caesar cipher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Caesar cipher
308
2German (de)
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
221
3French (fr)
Chiffrement par décalage
113
4Italian (it)
Cifrario di Cesare
109
5Russian (ru)
Шифр Цезаря
94
6Dutch (nl)
Caesarcijfer
86
7Polish (pl)
Szyfr Cezara
83
8Spanish (es)
Cifrado César
70
9Portuguese (pt)
Cifra de César
57
10Hungarian (hu)
Caesar-rejtjel
50
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Caesar cipher" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Caesar cipher
4
2Russian (ru)
Шифр Цезаря
2
3Arabic (ar)
تعمية قيصر
1
4Estonian (et)
Caesari nihe
1
5Azerbaijani (az)
Sezar şifrəsi
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Шифър на Цезар
0
7Catalan (ca)
Xifratge de Cèsar
0
8Czech (cs)
Caesarova šifra
0
9German (de)
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
0
10Greek (el)
Κώδικας του Καίσαρα
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 "Caesar cipher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Hebrew (he)
צופן קיסר
210
2English (en)
Caesar cipher
135
3French (fr)
Chiffrement par décalage
69
4German (de)
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
68
5Italian (it)
Cifrario di Cesare
59
6Arabic (ar)
تعمية قيصر
56
7Chinese (zh)
凱撒密碼
49
8Dutch (nl)
Caesarcijfer
42
9Spanish (es)
Cifrado César
36
10Hungarian (hu)
Caesar-rejtjel
31
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تعمية قيصر
azAzerbaijani
Sezar şifrəsi
bgBulgarian
Шифър на Цезар
caCatalan
Xifratge de Cèsar
csCzech
Caesarova šifra
deGerman
Caesar-Verschlüsselung
elGreek
Κώδικας του Καίσαρα
enEnglish
Caesar cipher
eoEsperanto
Ĉifro de Cezaro
esSpanish
Cifrado César
etEstonian
Caesari nihe
euBasque
Zesar zifratze-sistema
faPersian
رمز سزار
fiFinnish
Caesarin salakirjoitus
frFrench
Chiffrement par décalage
glGalician
Cifrado César
heHebrew
צופן קיסר
hrCroatian
Cezarova šifra
huHungarian
Caesar-rejtjel
hyArmenian
Կեսարի ալգորիթմ
idIndonesian
Sandi Caesar
itItalian
Cifrario di Cesare
jaJapanese
シーザー暗号
kaGeorgian
კეისრის კოდი
kkKazakh
Цезарь шифры
koKorean
카이사르 암호
laLatin
Notae Caesarianae
nlDutch
Caesarcijfer
noNorwegian
Cæsarchiffer
plPolish
Szyfr Cezara
ptPortuguese
Cifra de César
roRomanian
Cifrul Cezar
ruRussian
Шифр Цезаря
shSerbo-Croatian
Cezarova šifra
simpleSimple English
Caesar cipher
skSlovak
Cézarova šifra
slSlovenian
Cezarjeva šifra
srSerbian
Цезарова шифра
svSwedish
Caesarchiffer
taTamil
சீசர் ரகசிய எழுத்துகள்
thThai
รหัสซีซาร์
trTurkish
Sezar şifrelemesi
ukUkrainian
Шифр Цезаря
uzUzbek
Sezar shifri
viVietnamese
Mật mã Caesar
zhChinese
凱撒密碼

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#18264
03.2015
Global:
#11728
12.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1041
04.2005
Global:
#1654
06.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Caesar cipher from Wikipedia articles about Vigenère cipher, ROT13, Substitution cipher, Cryptography and Julius Caesar. Whereas reading the article about Caesar cipher people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Vigenère cipher, ROT13, Substitution cipher, Julius Caesar and Cryptography.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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