Flame (malware)

Quality:

Flame - modular computer malware. This software is the 532^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 468^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Flame (malware)” in English Wikipedia has 53.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.81 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 468^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 532^nd most popular in software.

In June 2025 the article “Flame (malware)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flame (malware)”, its content was written by 166 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 422 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Flame is on the 468^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 532^nd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 268 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1012 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #97 in May 2012
• Global: #483 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3712 in May 2012
• Global: #10502 in May 2012

There are 18 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	English (en) Flame (malware)		53.3754
2	Spanish (es) Flame (malware)		36.6801
3	Portuguese (pt) Flame (malware)		35.0606
4	Hebrew (he) להבה (נוזקה)		31.6617
5	German (de) Flame (Computerwurm)		29.5245
6	Arabic (ar) فلام (برنامج خبيث)		27.8651
7	Chinese (zh) 火焰 (恶意软件)		27.8384
8	Korean (ko) 플레임 (악성 소프트웨어)		25.4645
9	Persian (fa) بدافزار شعله		24.9124
10	Dutch (nl) Flame (malware)		24.517

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flame (malware)		1 287 685
2	Russian (ru) Flame (компьютерный вирус)		102 986
3	Spanish (es) Flame (malware)		99 273
4	French (fr) Flame (ver informatique)		57 432
5	Persian (fa) بدافزار شعله		53 630
6	Hebrew (he) להבה (נוזקה)		48 798
7	Chinese (zh) 火焰 (恶意软件)		41 763
8	Arabic (ar) فلام (برنامج خبيث)		38 965
9	Portuguese (pt) Flame (malware)		22 836
10	Dutch (nl) Flame (malware)		16 776

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) Flame (malware)		4 157
2	Persian (fa) بدافزار شعله		371
3	Hebrew (he) להבה (נוזקה)		339
4	Russian (ru) Flame (компьютерный вирус)		334
5	Chinese (zh) 火焰 (恶意软件)		236
6	Spanish (es) Flame (malware)		152
7	French (fr) Flame (ver informatique)		139
8	Arabic (ar) فلام (برنامج خبيث)		102
9	Portuguese (pt) Flame (malware)		67
10	Japanese (ja) Flame (マルウェア)		61

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flame (malware)		166
2	French (fr) Flame (ver informatique)		42
3	German (de) Flame (Computerwurm)		41
4	Hebrew (he) להבה (נוזקה)		32
5	Russian (ru) Flame (компьютерный вирус)		26
6	Persian (fa) بدافزار شعله		23
7	Chinese (zh) 火焰 (恶意软件)		20
8	Spanish (es) Flame (malware)		14
9	Dutch (nl) Flame (malware)		11
10	Arabic (ar) فلام (برنامج خبيث)		10

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	Hebrew (he) להבה (נוזקה)		2
2	English (en) Flame (malware)		1
3	Arabic (ar) فلام (برنامج خبيث)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Flame		0
5	German (de) Flame (Computerwurm)		0
6	Spanish (es) Flame (malware)		0
7	Persian (fa) بدافزار شعله		0
8	French (fr) Flame (ver informatique)		0
9	Japanese (ja) Flame (マルウェア)		0
10	Korean (ko) 플레임 (악성 소프트웨어)		0

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

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