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Shadow IT

Quality:

Shadow IT - IT systems in an organization deployed by departments other than the central IT one. Article “Shadow IT” in English Wikipedia has 28.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.49 points.

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

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

Since the creation of article “Shadow IT”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 144 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in English Wikipedia and cited 29 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #34727 in March 2020
  • Global: #82482 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #93419 in July 2014
  • Global: #166977 in July 2014

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Schatten-IT
34.927
2Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
30.2398
3Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
29.4294
4English (en)
Shadow IT
28.2645
5Chinese (zh)
影子IT
27.5772
6Italian (it)
Shadow IT
23.4693
7Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
22.5364
8French (fr)
Shadow IT
19.0344
9Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
14.7359
10Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
11.1182
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow IT" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shadow IT
562 179
2French (fr)
Shadow IT
90 834
3German (de)
Schatten-IT
82 502
4Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
51 364
5Italian (it)
Shadow IT
14 272
6Chinese (zh)
影子IT
6 772
7Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
4 132
8Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
3 817
9Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
104
10Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
64
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Shadow IT" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Shadow IT
2 151
2French (fr)
Shadow IT
678
3Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
450
4German (de)
Schatten-IT
320
5Italian (it)
Shadow IT
103
6Chinese (zh)
影子IT
83
7Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
23
8Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
15
9Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
12
10Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Shadow IT" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shadow IT
57
2German (de)
Schatten-IT
33
3French (fr)
Shadow IT
18
4Italian (it)
Shadow IT
11
5Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
10
6Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
8
7Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
5
8Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
1
9Chinese (zh)
影子IT
1
10Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Shadow IT" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Shadow IT
1
2German (de)
Schatten-IT
0
3French (fr)
Shadow IT
0
4Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
0
5Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
0
6Italian (it)
Shadow IT
0
7Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
0
8Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
0
9Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
0
10Chinese (zh)
影子IT
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Shadow IT" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Shadow IT
8
2German (de)
Schatten-IT
4
3French (fr)
Shadow IT
4
4Japanese (ja)
シャドーIT
4
5Chinese (zh)
影子IT
3
6Hebrew (he)
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
2
7Korean (ko)
섀도 IT
2
8Hungarian (hu)
Árnyékinformatika
1
9Norwegian (no)
Skygge-IT
1
10Italian (it)
Shadow IT
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Schatten-IT
enEnglish
Shadow IT
frFrench
Shadow IT
heHebrew
טכנולוגיית מידע צללים
huHungarian
Árnyékinformatika
itItalian
Shadow IT
jaJapanese
シャドーIT
koKorean
섀도 IT
noNorwegian
Skygge-IT
zhChinese
影子IT

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#93419
07.2014
Global:
#166977
07.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#34727
03.2020
Global:
#82482
03.2020

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Shadow IT from Wikipedia articles about Low-code development platform, Wikipedia article, Wikipedia article, Tresorit and Bring your own device. Whereas reading the article about Shadow IT people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Bring your own device, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Wikipedia article, Information technology and Low-code development platform.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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