Busy signal

Busy signal - type of call-progress tone. Article “Busy signal” in English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Busy signal”, its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 86 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 61 times in English Wikipedia and cited 109 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14834 in October 2003
• Global: #26392 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #173625 in December 2010
• Global: #220618 in August 2020

There are 8 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) Busy signal		15.5179
2	Japanese (ja) 話中音		13.269
3	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		12.345
4	Chinese (zh) 忙音		11.7137
5	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		11.3213
6	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		2.2955
7	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		1.1013
8	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		0.2678

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Busy signal" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Busy signal		825 630
2	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		76 660
3	Japanese (ja) 話中音		43 756
4	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		23 440
5	Chinese (zh) 忙音		23 127
6	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		19 003
7	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		11 406
8	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		3 186

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Busy signal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Busy signal		2 811
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		240
3	Chinese (zh) 忙音		213
4	Japanese (ja) 話中音		212
5	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		72
6	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		72
7	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		53
8	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		43

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

Language versions of the article "Busy signal" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Busy signal		58
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		7
3	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		5
4	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		4
5	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		4
6	Chinese (zh) 忙音		4
7	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		2
8	Japanese (ja) 話中音		2

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

Language versions of the article "Busy signal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Busy signal		0
2	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		0
3	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		0
4	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		0
5	Japanese (ja) 話中音		0
6	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		0
8	Chinese (zh) 忙音		0

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

Language versions of the article "Busy signal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Busy signal		61
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'occupation		16
3	Japanese (ja) 話中音		11
4	Spanish (es) Señal de ocupado		6
5	Chinese (zh) 忙音		5
6	Korean (ko) 통화중 신호		4
7	Persian (fa) بوق اشغال		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Sinal de ocupado		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Busy signal
es	Spanish Señal de ocupado
fa	Persian بوق اشغال
fr	French Tonalité d'occupation
ja	Japanese 話中音
ko	Korean 통화중 신호
pt	Portuguese Sinal de ocupado
zh	Chinese 忙音

Best Rank

English: #173625 12.2010

Global: #220618 08.2020

Best Rank

English: #14834 10.2003

Global: #26392 10.2003

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