Mirai (malware)

Quality:

Mirai - malware that turns computer systems running Linux into remotely controlled "bots". This software is the 598^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 526^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article "Mirai (malware)" in English Wikipedia has 51 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 63 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 526^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 598^th most popular in software.

In July 2024 the article "Mirai (malware)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Mirai (malware)", its content was written by 111 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Mirai is on the 526^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 598^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 283 times in English Wikipedia and cited 457 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1524 in October 2016
• Global: #3130 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8185 in October 2016
• Global: #21716 in October 2016

There are 13 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Mirai (malware)		50.9952
2	Chinese (zh) Mirai (恶意软件)		46.7558
3	Ukrainian (uk) Mirai (ботнет)		35.0829
4	German (de) Mirai (Computerwurm)		32.898
5	Japanese (ja) Mirai (マルウェア)		30.9494
6	Turkish (tr) Mirai (kötü amaçlı yazılım)		25.4453
7	Russian (ru) Mirai (ботнет)		25.0854
8	French (fr) Mirai (logiciel malveillant)		25.0145
9	Italian (it) Mirai (malware)		24.1562
10	Czech (cs) Mirai (malware)		23.5203

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mirai (malware)		1 080 637
2	Japanese (ja) Mirai (マルウェア)		112 601
3	Russian (ru) Mirai (ботнет)		66 952
4	Chinese (zh) Mirai (恶意软件)		63 568
5	Spanish (es) Mirai (malware)		62 476
6	French (fr) Mirai (logiciel malveillant)		54 251
7	German (de) Mirai (Computerwurm)		42 991
8	Italian (it) Mirai (malware)		27 767
9	Ukrainian (uk) Mirai (ботнет)		4 463
10	Persian (fa) بدافزار میرا		4 370

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) Mirai (malware)		5 537
2	German (de) Mirai (Computerwurm)		572
3	Japanese (ja) Mirai (マルウェア)		489
4	Russian (ru) Mirai (ботнет)		414
5	French (fr) Mirai (logiciel malveillant)		322
6	Spanish (es) Mirai (malware)		285
7	Chinese (zh) Mirai (恶意软件)		275
8	Italian (it) Mirai (malware)		167
9	Turkish (tr) Mirai (kötü amaçlı yazılım)		68
10	Dutch (nl) Mirai (malware)		38

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mirai (malware)		111
2	German (de) Mirai (Computerwurm)		34
3	Italian (it) Mirai (malware)		17
4	Chinese (zh) Mirai (恶意软件)		16
5	Persian (fa) بدافزار میرا		15
6	French (fr) Mirai (logiciel malveillant)		13
7	Spanish (es) Mirai (malware)		12
8	Czech (cs) Mirai (malware)		9
9	Japanese (ja) Mirai (マルウェア)		9
10	Russian (ru) Mirai (ботнет)		9

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) Mirai (malware)		2
2	Russian (ru) Mirai (ботнет)		1
3	Czech (cs) Mirai (malware)		0
4	German (de) Mirai (Computerwurm)		0
5	Spanish (es) Mirai (malware)		0
6	Persian (fa) بدافزار میرا		0
7	French (fr) Mirai (logiciel malveillant)		0
8	Italian (it) Mirai (malware)		0
9	Japanese (ja) Mirai (マルウェア)		0
10	Dutch (nl) Mirai (malware)		0

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

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