Spionage

Quality:

Espionage - clandestine acquisition of confidential information. Article “Spionage” in German Wikipedia has 35.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8740^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Spionage”, its content was written by 227 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2701 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8740^th place).

The article is cited 1579 times in German Wikipedia (6462^nd place) and cited 23563 times in all languages (6961^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2357 in April 2005
• Global: #1034 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #13338 in April 2008
• Global: #7984 in July 2010

There are 51 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) Espionage		64.4761
2	Hindi (hi) गुप्तचर्या		64.4201
3	Finnish (fi) Vakoilu		59.5743
4	Catalan (ca) Espionatge		56.9082
5	Italian (it) Spionaggio		44.7289
6	Hungarian (hu) Kémkedés (bűncselekmény)		36.9342
7	German (de) Spionage		35.7949
8	Chinese (zh) 间谍		34.2441
9	Spanish (es) Espionaje		31.3044
10	Dutch (nl) Spionage		31.2431

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Espionage		11 580 342
2	Russian (ru) Шпионаж		1 056 758
3	Spanish (es) Espionaje		1 020 692
4	German (de) Spionage		745 291
5	Indonesian (id) Pemata-mataan		594 582
6	Chinese (zh) 间谍		592 448
7	Italian (it) Spionaggio		571 155
8	Portuguese (pt) Espionagem		439 641
9	Arabic (ar) تجسس		433 523
10	Polish (pl) Szpiegostwo		322 865

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) Espionage		36 763
2	Russian (ru) Шпионаж		3 170
3	Spanish (es) Espionaje		2 891
4	Chinese (zh) 间谍		2 580
5	German (de) Spionage		1 988
6	Japanese (ja) 諜報		1 726
7	Persian (fa) جاسوسی		1 557
8	Hebrew (he) ריגול		1 377
9	Italian (it) Spionaggio		1 028
10	Turkish (tr) Casusluk		903

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Espionage		1 022
2	German (de) Spionage		227
3	Italian (it) Spionaggio		170
4	Chinese (zh) 间谍		109
5	Russian (ru) Шпионаж		99
6	Spanish (es) Espionaje		86
7	Finnish (fi) Vakoilu		81
8	Polish (pl) Szpiegostwo		78
9	Portuguese (pt) Espionagem		77
10	Norwegian (no) Spionasje		53

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) Espionage		5
2	Spanish (es) Espionaje		3
3	Catalan (ca) Espionatge		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Spionado		1
5	Persian (fa) جاسوسی		1
6	Hebrew (he) ריגול		1
7	Serbian (sr) Шпијунажа		1
8	Chinese (zh) 间谍		1
9	Arabic (ar) تجسس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Casusluq		0

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

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