Contraband

Contraband - item illegal to possess or sell because it is outlawed or was illegally obtained. Article “Contraband” in English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.27 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Contraband”, its content was written by 93 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 187 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 451 times in English Wikipedia and cited 705 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #27470 in May 2003
• Global: #36538 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8027 in January 2012
• Global: #19416 in January 2012

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 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	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		33.4173
2	German (de) Konterbande		32.4118
3	English (en) Contraband		24.081
4	Simple English (simple) Contraband		20.7831
5	Chinese (zh) 違禁品		14.6257
6	Russian (ru) Военная контрабанда		13.9868
7	Arabic (ar) بضائع محظورة		11.2487
8	Persian (fa) کالای غیرمجاز		2.8794
9	Swedish (sv) Kontraband		1.4045
10	Czech (cs) Kontraband		1.2647

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraband		2 121 204
2	German (de) Konterbande		175 061
3	Czech (cs) Kontraband		50 859
4	Swedish (sv) Kontraband		36 643
5	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		14 177
6	Danish (da) Kontrabande		10 006
7	Simple English (simple) Contraband		8 494
8	Croatian (hr) Kontrabanda		5 977
9	Chinese (zh) 違禁品		5 596
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kontrabanda		2 842

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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 "Contraband" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contraband		3 669
2	German (de) Konterbande		562
3	Chinese (zh) 違禁品		155
4	Czech (cs) Kontraband		131
5	Simple English (simple) Contraband		82
6	Russian (ru) Военная контрабанда		46
7	Swedish (sv) Kontraband		45
8	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		44
9	Danish (da) Kontrabande		37
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kontrabanda		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contraband		93
2	German (de) Konterbande		43
3	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		9
4	Danish (da) Kontrabande		8
5	Swedish (sv) Kontraband		8
6	Croatian (hr) Kontrabanda		6
7	Czech (cs) Kontraband		5
8	Simple English (simple) Contraband		4
9	Arabic (ar) بضائع محظورة		3
10	Persian (fa) کالای غیرمجاز		3

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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 "Contraband" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) بضائع محظورة		0
2	Czech (cs) Kontraband		0
3	Danish (da) Kontrabande		0
4	German (de) Konterbande		0
5	English (en) Contraband		0
6	Persian (fa) کالای غیرمجاز		0
7	Croatian (hr) Kontrabanda		0
8	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		0
9	Russian (ru) Военная контрабанда		0
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kontrabanda		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 "Contraband" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Contraband		451
2	German (de) Konterbande		92
3	Chinese (zh) 違禁品		55
4	Danish (da) Kontrabande		24
5	Czech (cs) Kontraband		19
6	Norwegian (no) Kontrabande		18
7	Swedish (sv) Kontraband		15
8	Persian (fa) کالای غیرمجاز		9
9	Simple English (simple) Contraband		8
10	Arabic (ar) بضائع محظورة		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بضائع محظورة
cs	Czech Kontraband
da	Danish Kontrabande
de	German Konterbande
en	English Contraband
fa	Persian کالای غیرمجاز
hr	Croatian Kontrabanda
no	Norwegian Kontrabande
ru	Russian Военная контрабанда
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kontrabanda
simple	Simple English Contraband
sv	Swedish Kontraband
zh	Chinese 違禁品

Best Rank

English: #8027 01.2012

Global: #19416 01.2012

Best Rank

English: #27470 05.2003

Global: #36538 05.2003

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