Numbers station

Quality:

Numbers station - shortwave radio station broadcasting only numbers. Article “Numbers station” in Italian Wikipedia has 13.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.73 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 “Numbers station”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 863 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #4156 in May 2011
• Global: #515 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #3201 in May 2011
• Global: #5612 in November 2010

There are 26 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) Numbers station		63.2006
2	German (de) Zahlensender		58.4217
3	Polish (pl) Radiostacje numeryczne		52.89
4	Basque (eu) Zenbaki-irrati		41.7038
5	Chinese (zh) 数字电台		37.8762
6	Norwegian (no) Nummerstasjon		28.0545
7	Danish (da) Nummerstation		24.9256
8	Portuguese (pt) Emissoras de números		23.2466
9	Czech (cs) Číselná stanice		22.868
10	Russian (ru) Номерные радиостанции		22.5719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Numbers station		6 566 683
2	Russian (ru) Номерные радиостанции		624 444
3	Japanese (ja) 乱数放送		545 415
4	German (de) Zahlensender		532 432
5	Spanish (es) Emisora de números		250 149
6	Polish (pl) Radiostacje numeryczne		227 807
7	Italian (it) Numbers station		194 211
8	French (fr) Station de nombres		122 100
9	Chinese (zh) 数字电台		69 856
10	Finnish (fi) Numeroasema		52 158

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Numbers station		30 128
2	Russian (ru) Номерные радиостанции		4 551
3	Japanese (ja) 乱数放送		2 298
4	German (de) Zahlensender		2 113
5	Polish (pl) Radiostacje numeryczne		746
6	French (fr) Station de nombres		675
7	Italian (it) Numbers station		654
8	Spanish (es) Emisora de números		603
9	Chinese (zh) 数字电台		468
10	Simple English (simple) Numbers station		327

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Numbers station		550
2	German (de) Zahlensender		173
3	Russian (ru) Номерные радиостанции		77
4	Greek (el) Σταθμός αριθμών		61
5	Polish (pl) Radiostacje numeryczne		58
6	Italian (it) Numbers station		57
7	Japanese (ja) 乱数放送		56
8	Spanish (es) Emisora de números		42
9	French (fr) Station de nombres		35
10	Dutch (nl) Nummerstation		28

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Danish (da) Nummerstation		2
2	English (en) Numbers station		2
3	Finnish (fi) Numeroasema		2
4	German (de) Zahlensender		1
5	Basque (eu) Zenbaki-irrati		1
6	Japanese (ja) 乱数放送		1
7	Norwegian (no) Nummerstasjon		1
8	Arabic (ar) محطة أرقام		0
9	Czech (cs) Číselná stanice		0
10	Greek (el) Σταθμός αριθμών		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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