IMSI-fanger

IMSI-catcher - telephony eavesdropping device. Article “IMSI-fanger” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “IMSI-fanger”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 135 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #931 in December 2014
• Global: #27186 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #5864 in October 2023
• Global: #60675 in April 2025

There are 12 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	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		65.1951
2	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		40.3154
3	English (en) IMSI-catcher		40.2221
4	Chinese (zh) 伪基站		33.2411
5	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		29.4013
6	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		27.3005
7	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		23.2103
8	Slovenian (sl) Lovilec IMSI		19.1178
9	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		16.4403
10	Finnish (fi) IMSI-sieppari		15.8585

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

The most popular language versions of the article "IMSI-fanger" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) IMSI-catcher		1 463 906
2	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		696 606
3	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		237 838
4	Chinese (zh) 伪基站		85 254
5	Russian (ru) IMSI-кэтчер		67 349
6	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		27 922
7	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		20 607
8	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		20 441
9	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		8 804
10	Slovenian (sl) Lovilec IMSI		7 206

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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 "IMSI-fanger" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) IMSI-catcher		7 306
2	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		1 453
3	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		1 420
4	Chinese (zh) 伪基站		527
5	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		372
6	Russian (ru) IMSI-кэтчер		270
7	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		171
8	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		101
9	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		23
10	Slovenian (sl) Lovilec IMSI		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		103
2	English (en) IMSI-catcher		97
3	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		43
4	Chinese (zh) 伪基站		26
5	Russian (ru) IMSI-кэтчер		23
6	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		9
7	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		7
8	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		6
9	Slovenian (sl) Lovilec IMSI		6
10	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		3

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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 "IMSI-fanger" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) IMSI-catcher		1
2	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		1
3	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		0
4	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		0
5	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		0
6	Finnish (fi) IMSI-sieppari		0
7	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		0
8	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		0
9	Romanian (ro) Interceptor IMSI		0
10	Russian (ru) IMSI-кэтчер		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 "IMSI-fanger" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) IMSI-catcher		36
2	German (de) IMSI-Catcher		34
3	French (fr) IMSI-catcher		21
4	Chinese (zh) 伪基站		13
5	Czech (cs) Agáta (zařízení)		10
6	Norwegian (no) IMSI-fanger		6
7	Japanese (ja) IMSIキャッチャー		5
8	Arabic (ar) آي إم إس آي كاتشر		3
9	Russian (ru) IMSI-кэтчер		3
10	Slovenian (sl) Lovilec IMSI		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic آي إم إس آي كاتشر
cs	Czech Agáta (zařízení)
de	German IMSI-Catcher
en	English IMSI-catcher
fi	Finnish IMSI-sieppari
fr	French IMSI-catcher
ja	Japanese IMSIキャッチャー
no	Norwegian IMSI-fanger
ro	Romanian Interceptor IMSI
ru	Russian IMSI-кэтчер
sl	Slovenian Lovilec IMSI
zh	Chinese 伪基站

Best Rank

Norwegian: #5864 10.2023

Global: #60675 04.2025

Best Rank

Norwegian: #931 12.2014

Global: #27186 01.2017

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