Electricity theft

Theft of electricity - criminal practice of stealing electrical energy. Article “Electricity theft” in English Wikipedia has 39.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.99 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Electricity theft”, its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 182 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 95 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36181 in August 2010
• Global: #70993 in August 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #296717 in August 2021
• Global: #136169 in April 2010

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	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		41.7683
2	English (en) Electricity theft		39.5961
3	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		29.2293
4	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		25.7031
5	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		19.9488
6	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		13.4456
7	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		11.514
8	Chinese (zh) 偷电		11.1099

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electricity theft		308 977
2	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		263 204
3	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		148 218
4	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		57 806
5	Chinese (zh) 偷电		5 047
6	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		1 285
7	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		1 071
8	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		570

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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 "Electricity theft" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electricity theft		1 335
2	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		680
3	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		295
4	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		167
5	Chinese (zh) 偷电		109
6	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		26
7	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		26
8	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electricity theft		69
2	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		50
3	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		35
4	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		17
5	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		6
6	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		2
7	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		2
8	Chinese (zh) 偷电		1

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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 "Electricity theft" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		0
2	English (en) Electricity theft		0
3	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		0
4	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		0
6	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		0
7	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		0
8	Chinese (zh) 偷电		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 "Electricity theft" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Electricity theft		29
2	Japanese (ja) 電気窃盗		23
3	German (de) Entziehung elektrischer Energie		22
4	Portuguese (pt) Gato de energia elétrica		11
5	Ukrainian (uk) Крадіжка електроенергії		4
6	Chinese (zh) 偷电		4
7	Persian (fa) برق‌دزدی		1
8	Turkish (tr) Elektrik hırsızlığı		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Entziehung elektrischer Energie
en	English Electricity theft
fa	Persian برق‌دزدی
ja	Japanese 電気窃盗
pt	Portuguese Gato de energia elétrica
tr	Turkish Elektrik hırsızlığı
uk	Ukrainian Крадіжка електроенергії
zh	Chinese 偷电

Best Rank

English: #296717 08.2021

Global: #136169 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #36181 08.2010

Global: #70993 08.2005

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