Shellshock (software bug)

Quality:

Shellshock - security bug in the Unix Bash shell. Article "Shellshock (software bug)" in English Wikipedia has 69.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 81 references and 14 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Shellshock (software bug)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Shellshock (software bug)", its content was written by 151 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 304 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 248 times in English Wikipedia and cited 765 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #38 in September 2014
• Global: #252 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #189 in October 2014
• Global: #937 in October 2014

There are 17 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) Shellshock (software bug)		69.7815
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		61.94
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		50.7443
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		46.6808
5	Czech (cs) Shellshock		40.5593
6	Dutch (nl) Shellshock (softwarebug)		32.9814
7	Estonian (et) Shellshock		31.7795
8	Indonesian (id) Shellshock (bug perangkat lunak)		24.7817
9	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		23.0512
10	Norwegian (no) Shellshock		22.6774

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		2 197 772
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		199 264
3	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		104 653
4	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		69 628
5	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		56 038
6	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		50 456
7	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		40 131
8	Polish (pl) Shellshock		16 905
9	Portuguese (pt) Shellshock		12 141
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		9 252

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) Shellshock (software bug)		3 218
2	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		353
3	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		323
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		322
5	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		159
6	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		121
7	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		81
8	Portuguese (pt) Shellshock		60
9	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		30
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		19

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		151
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		39
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		23
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		18
5	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		11
6	Polish (pl) Shellshock		8
7	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		7
8	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		6
9	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		6
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		5

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	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		2
2	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		1
3	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		1
4	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		0
5	Czech (cs) Shellshock		0
6	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		0
7	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		0
8	Estonian (et) Shellshock		0
9	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		0
10	Hebrew (he) Shellshock		0

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

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