# \[Pentesting\] Passwords from Wikipedia

DevFeed: [\[Pentesting\] Passwords from Wikipedia](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pentesting-passwords-from-wikipedia-20575.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://yurichev.com/blog/passwords_from_wikipedia/>)

Published: 2025-11-20T23:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dennis Yurichev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dennis-yurichev.md>)

Topics: [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [examples](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/examples.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes generating a large wordlist from English Wikipedia for password-cracking experiments, including talk pages and localized wordlists. It also discusses Russian and Ukrainian transliteration, keyboard-layout substitutions, and a Python itertools implementation.

## Source excerpt

[Pentesting] Passwords from Wikipedia