Blue box

Blue box - electronic device used to illegally place free long-distance telephone calls. Article “Blue box” in Italian Wikipedia has 10.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.16 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Blue box”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 201 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #13503 in July 2012
• Global: #12078 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #25855 in October 2011
• Global: #35679 in October 2011

There are 18 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, 2026 (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) Blue box		51.8296
2	Chinese (zh) 藍盒子		50.4743
3	Portuguese (pt) Blue box		40.7377
4	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		28.9114
5	Ukrainian (uk) Blue box		28.0206
6	Russian (ru) Blue box		25.674
7	Spanish (es) Bluebox		16.7783
8	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		15.2396
9	Italian (it) Blue box		10.4072
10	Turkish (tr) Mavi kutu		9.6484

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue box		2 017 053
2	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		360 873
3	Russian (ru) Blue box		211 072
4	Spanish (es) Bluebox		170 188
5	French (fr) Blue box		125 534
6	Italian (it) Blue box		91 873
7	Portuguese (pt) Blue box		58 256
8	Chinese (zh) 藍盒子		48 756
9	Swedish (sv) Blue box		9 905
10	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		9 024

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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 "Blue box" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blue box		3 969
2	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		476
3	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		445
4	Russian (ru) Blue box		243
5	Chinese (zh) 藍盒子		170
6	French (fr) Blue box		155
7	Spanish (es) Bluebox		134
8	Italian (it) Blue box		95
9	Portuguese (pt) Blue box		41
10	Swedish (sv) Blue box		41

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blue box		219
2	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		68
3	Russian (ru) Blue box		44
4	French (fr) Blue box		43
5	Italian (it) Blue box		40
6	Spanish (es) Bluebox		21
7	Portuguese (pt) Blue box		12
8	Swedish (sv) Blue box		8
9	Ukrainian (uk) Blue box		7
10	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		6

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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 "Blue box" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blue box		2
2	Arabic (ar) الصندوق الأزرق		1
3	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		1
4	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		0
5	Spanish (es) Bluebox		0
6	Basque (eu) Bluebox		0
7	French (fr) Blue box		0
8	Armenian (hy) Բլյու բոքս		0
9	Indonesian (id) Kotak biru (phreaking)		0
10	Italian (it) Blue box		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 "Blue box" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Blue box		79
2	French (fr) Blue box		21
3	German (de) Blue Box (Phreaking)		20
4	Russian (ru) Blue box		14
5	Indonesian (id) Kotak biru (phreaking)		12
6	Spanish (es) Bluebox		10
7	Italian (it) Blue box		10
8	Japanese (ja) ブルーボックス		10
9	Ukrainian (uk) Blue box		8
10	Korean (ko) 블루 박스		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الصندوق الأزرق
de	German Blue Box (Phreaking)
en	English Blue box
es	Spanish Bluebox
eu	Basque Bluebox
fr	French Blue box
hy	Armenian Բլյու բոքս
id	Indonesian Kotak biru (phreaking)
it	Italian Blue box
ja	Japanese ブルーボックス
ko	Korean 블루 박스
pt	Portuguese Blue box
ru	Russian Blue box
simple	Simple English Blue box
sv	Swedish Blue box
tr	Turkish Mavi kutu
uk	Ukrainian Blue box
zh	Chinese 藍盒子

Best Rank

Italian: #25855 10.2011

Global: #35679 10.2011

Best Rank

Italian: #13503 07.2012

Global: #12078 04.2003

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