Improvised explosive device

Improvised explosive device - bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. Article "Improvised explosive device" in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 149 references and 29 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Improvised explosive device" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Improvised explosive device", its content was written by 604 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1296 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2321 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5925 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3912 in February 2019
• Global: #15159 in February 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3439 in April 2013
• Global: #8255 in April 2013

There are 36 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) Improvised explosive device		83.4373
2	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		52.3209
3	Catalan (ca) Artefacte explosiu improvisat		48.4741
4	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		47.3852
5	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		45.6633
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Improvisert bombe		39.1576
7	German (de) Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung		38.0884
8	Malay (ms) Alat letupan reka ganti		33.7091
9	Serbian (sr) Improvizovani eksplozivni uređaj		33.2575
10	Chinese (zh) 簡易爆炸裝置		32.8254

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Improvised explosive device" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Improvised explosive device		8 333 417
2	Japanese (ja) 即席爆発装置		879 149
3	German (de) Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung		819 472
4	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		528 661
5	French (fr) Engin explosif improvisé		391 946
6	Chinese (zh) 簡易爆炸裝置		388 005
7	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		331 286
8	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		319 917
9	Arabic (ar) عبوة ناسفة		111 703
10	Turkish (tr) El yapımı patlayıcı		82 099

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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 "Improvised explosive device" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Improvised explosive device		30 654
2	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		5 281
3	Japanese (ja) 即席爆発装置		3 004
4	French (fr) Engin explosif improvisé		2 193
5	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		1 862
6	German (de) Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung		1 835
7	Chinese (zh) 簡易爆炸裝置		1 310
8	Arabic (ar) عبوة ناسفة		1 188
9	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		1 081
10	Turkish (tr) El yapımı patlayıcı		1 074

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Improvised explosive device		604
2	German (de) Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung		115
3	French (fr) Engin explosif improvisé		79
4	Japanese (ja) 即席爆発装置		51
5	Chinese (zh) 簡易爆炸裝置		44
6	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		40
7	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		36
8	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		34
9	Swedish (sv) Improviserade sprängmedel		29
10	Finnish (fi) Tienvarsipommi		26

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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 "Improvised explosive device" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Improvised explosive device		4
2	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		2
3	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		1
4	Indonesian (id) Alat peledak improvisasi		1
5	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		1
6	Japanese (ja) 即席爆発装置		1
7	Arabic (ar) عبوة ناسفة		0
8	Catalan (ca) Artefacte explosiu improvisat		0
9	Czech (cs) Improvizované výbušné zařízení		0
10	Danish (da) Improviseret sprængladning		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 "Improvised explosive device" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Improvised explosive device		2 321
2	French (fr) Engin explosif improvisé		417
3	Chinese (zh) 簡易爆炸裝置		329
4	German (de) Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung		288
5	Arabic (ar) عبوة ناسفة		284
6	Japanese (ja) 即席爆発装置		254
7	Russian (ru) Самодельное взрывное устройство		245
8	Spanish (es) Artefacto explosivo improvisado		237
9	Italian (it) Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato		192
10	Ukrainian (uk) Саморобний вибуховий пристрій		149

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عبوة ناسفة
ca	Catalan Artefacte explosiu improvisat
cs	Czech Improvizované výbušné zařízení
da	Danish Improviseret sprængladning
de	German Unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung
el	Greek Αυτοσχέδιος εκρηκτικός μηχανισμός
en	English Improvised explosive device
eo	Esperanto Improvizita eksploda aparato
es	Spanish Artefacto explosivo improvisado
eu	Basque Lehergailu inprobisatu
fa	Persian بمب کنارجاده‌ای
fi	Finnish Tienvarsipommi
fr	French Engin explosif improvisé
he	Hebrew מטען צד
hi	Hindi कामचलाऊ विस्फोटक युक्ति
id	Indonesian Alat peledak improvisasi
it	Italian Ordigno esplosivo improvvisato
ja	Japanese 即席爆発装置
ko	Korean 급조폭발물
ms	Malay Alat letupan reka ganti
nl	Dutch Geïmproviseerde bom
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Improvisert bombe
no	Norwegian Improvisert bombe
pt	Portuguese Artefato explosivo improvisado
ro	Romanian Dispozitiv exploziv improvizat
ru	Russian Самодельное взрывное устройство
simple	Simple English Improvised explosive device
sl	Slovenian Improvizirana eksplozivna naprava
sr	Serbian Improvizovani eksplozivni uređaj
sv	Swedish Improviserade sprängmedel
ta	Tamil கைவினை வெடி குண்டு
th	Thai ระเบิดแสวงเครื่อง
tr	Turkish El yapımı patlayıcı
uk	Ukrainian Саморобний вибуховий пристрій
vi	Vietnamese Thiết bị nổ tự tạo
zh	Chinese 簡易爆炸裝置

Best Rank

English: #3439 04.2013

Global: #8255 04.2013

Best Rank

English: #3912 02.2019

Global: #15159 02.2019

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