Shoulder surfing

Shoulder surfing - using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information. Article “Shoulder surfing” in Italian Wikipedia has 34.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 13 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Shoulder surfing” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shoulder surfing”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 136 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 33 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #41461 in May 2019
• Global: #68228 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #50494 in September 2024
• Global: #351813 in October 2013

There are 6 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) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		37.092
2	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		34.6411
3	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		24.04
4	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		5.0432
5	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		4.7889
6	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		1.766

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shoulder surfing" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		591 999
2	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		61 712
3	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		21 337
4	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		10 059
5	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		9 109
6	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		282

More...

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 "Shoulder surfing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		2 303
2	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		329
3	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		88
4	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		69
5	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		20
6	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		10

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		89
2	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		16
3	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		15
4	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		8
5	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		4
6	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		4

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Shoulder surfing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		1
2	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		1
3	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		0
4	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		0
5	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Shoulder surfing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shoulder surfing (computer security)		21
2	Basque (eu) Sorbalda surfing		4
3	Italian (it) Shoulder surfing		4
4	Spanish (es) Mirar por encima del hombro		2
5	French (fr) Shoulder surfing		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Kifigyelés		0

More...

#	Language	Value
en	English Shoulder surfing (computer security)
es	Spanish Mirar por encima del hombro
eu	Basque Sorbalda surfing
fr	French Shoulder surfing
hu	Hungarian Kifigyelés
it	Italian Shoulder surfing

Best Rank

Italian: #50494 09.2024

Global: #351813 10.2013

Best Rank

Italian: #41461 05.2019

Global: #68228 01.2017

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In Italian Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Niscemi, Morbo di K, Antonio Vergara, Moussa Diaby, Giovanni Borromeo, Antonio Chichiarelli, Il falsario (film 2025), Marty Supreme, I giorni del cielo, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information