Netcat

Netcat - computer networking utility. This software is the 221^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 443^rd most popular software in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Netcat” in Japanese Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.08 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Netcat” was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Netcat”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 520 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Netcat is on the 443^rd place in local ranking of software in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 221^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 123 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 1480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #21853 in February 2026
• Global: #28346 in June 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #68784 in January 2026
• Global: #37086 in September 2018

There are 22 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) Netcat		39.7979
2	German (de) Netcat		35.4891
3	Hungarian (hu) Netcat		30.0565
4	Hebrew (he) Netcat		30.0395
5	Turkish (tr) Netcat		25.5034
6	Chinese (zh) Netcat		25.3426
7	Japanese (ja) Netcat		20.4988
8	Indonesian (id) Netcat		18.5033
9	Arabic (ar) نت كت		16.1661
10	Russian (ru) Netcat		13.5164

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Netcat		3 232 305
2	German (de) Netcat		459 306
3	Russian (ru) Netcat		368 551
4	Spanish (es) Netcat		287 659
5	French (fr) Netcat		186 405
6	Japanese (ja) Netcat		135 080
7	Italian (it) Netcat		106 643
8	Polish (pl) Netcat		92 657
9	Chinese (zh) Netcat		67 746
10	Turkish (tr) Netcat		40 490

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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 "Netcat" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Netcat		4 243
2	German (de) Netcat		360
3	Russian (ru) Netcat		302
4	French (fr) Netcat		209
5	Spanish (es) Netcat		207
6	Chinese (zh) Netcat		131
7	Italian (it) Netcat		127
8	Japanese (ja) Netcat		116
9	Polish (pl) Netcat		63
10	Ukrainian (uk) Netcat		33

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Netcat		188
2	German (de) Netcat		75
3	French (fr) Netcat		34
4	Italian (it) Netcat		33
5	Russian (ru) Netcat		29
6	Spanish (es) Netcat		27
7	Finnish (fi) Netcat		25
8	Polish (pl) Netcat		18
9	Chinese (zh) Netcat		14
10	Japanese (ja) Netcat		13

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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 "Netcat" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نت كت		1
2	English (en) Netcat		1
3	Japanese (ja) Netcat		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Netcat		0
5	Czech (cs) Netcat		0
6	German (de) Netcat		0
7	Spanish (es) Netcat		0
8	Persian (fa) نت‌کت		0
9	Finnish (fi) Netcat		0
10	French (fr) Netcat		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 "Netcat" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Netcat		173
2	Korean (ko) Netcat		150
3	Polish (pl) Netcat		132
4	Italian (it) Netcat		128
5	Czech (cs) Netcat		123
6	Japanese (ja) Netcat		123
7	Hungarian (hu) Netcat		118
8	Ukrainian (uk) Netcat		118
9	Chinese (zh) Netcat		113
10	Arabic (ar) نت كت		84

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نت كت
az	Azerbaijani Netcat
cs	Czech Netcat
de	German Netcat
en	English Netcat
es	Spanish Netcat
fa	Persian نت‌کت
fi	Finnish Netcat
fr	French Netcat
he	Hebrew Netcat
hu	Hungarian Netcat
id	Indonesian Netcat
it	Italian Netcat
ja	Japanese Netcat
ka	Georgian Netcat
ko	Korean Netcat
pl	Polish Netcat
ro	Romanian Netcat
ru	Russian Netcat
tr	Turkish Netcat
uk	Ukrainian Netcat
zh	Chinese Netcat

Best Rank

Japanese: #68784 01.2026

Global: #37086 09.2018

Best Rank

Japanese: #21853 02.2026

Global: #28346 06.2005

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