Global surveillance

Global surveillance - mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders. Article “Global surveillance” in English Wikipedia has 96.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 247 references and 53 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Global surveillance” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Global surveillance”, its content was written by 104 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 212 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 322 times in English Wikipedia and cited 719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21048 in January 2014
• Global: #34286 in February 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #89196 in December 2016
• Global: #135650 in December 2016

There are 12 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	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		100
2	English (en) Global surveillance		96.9191
3	French (fr) Surveillance globale		44.4521
4	Turkish (tr) Küresel gözetleme		38.1536
5	Chinese (zh) 全球監控		33.2027
6	Arabic (ar) مراقبة عالمية		25.3859
7	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		23.9732
8	Greek (el) Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση		23.8383
9	Catalan (ca) Vigilància global		23.0053
10	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		21.8282

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Global surveillance		795 971
2	French (fr) Surveillance globale		158 060
3	Japanese (ja) 国際的監視網		41 954
4	Chinese (zh) 全球監控		25 060
5	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		18 483
6	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		14 614
7	Greek (el) Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση		5 227
8	Finnish (fi) Maailmanlaajuinen joukkovalvonta		4 846
9	Turkish (tr) Küresel gözetleme		4 754
10	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		3 985

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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 "Global surveillance" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Global surveillance		4 000
2	French (fr) Surveillance globale		514
3	Japanese (ja) 国際的監視網		382
4	Turkish (tr) Küresel gözetleme		216
5	Chinese (zh) 全球監控		133
6	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		103
7	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		87
8	Arabic (ar) مراقبة عالمية		31
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση		31
10	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		26

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Global surveillance		104
2	French (fr) Surveillance globale		57
3	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		9
4	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		9
5	Chinese (zh) 全球監控		9
6	Japanese (ja) 国際的監視網		7
7	Arabic (ar) مراقبة عالمية		4
8	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		4
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση		3
10	Turkish (tr) Küresel gözetleme		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 "Global surveillance" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Global surveillance		1
2	Arabic (ar) مراقبة عالمية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Vigilància global		0
4	Greek (el) Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση		0
5	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		0
6	Finnish (fi) Maailmanlaajuinen joukkovalvonta		0
7	French (fr) Surveillance globale		0
8	Japanese (ja) 国際的監視網		0
9	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		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 "Global surveillance" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Global surveillance		322
2	French (fr) Surveillance globale		155
3	Portuguese (pt) Vigilância global		47
4	Persian (fa) نظارت جهانی		46
5	Korean (ko) 세계적 감시망		40
6	Arabic (ar) مراقبة عالمية		25
7	Turkish (tr) Küresel gözetleme		25
8	Japanese (ja) 国際的監視網		24
9	Chinese (zh) 全球監控		20
10	Finnish (fi) Maailmanlaajuinen joukkovalvonta		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مراقبة عالمية
ca	Catalan Vigilància global
el	Greek Παγκόσμια επιτήρηση
en	English Global surveillance
fa	Persian نظارت جهانی
fi	Finnish Maailmanlaajuinen joukkovalvonta
fr	French Surveillance globale
ja	Japanese 国際的監視網
ko	Korean 세계적 감시망
pt	Portuguese Vigilância global
tr	Turkish Küresel gözetleme
zh	Chinese 全球監控

Best Rank

English: #89196 12.2016

Global: #135650 12.2016

Best Rank

English: #21048 01.2014

Global: #34286 02.2014

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