Kidnapping

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Kidnapping

Quality:

Kidnapping - taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will. Article “Kidnapping” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 33.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Norwegian Wikipedia:
The 7044th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Kidnapping”, its content was written by 67 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (7044th place) and edited by 1737 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 149 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 12153 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Norwegian): #19 in May 2020
  • Global: #6670 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Norwegian): #5731 in May 2020
  • Global: #14893 in October 2008

There are 45 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Kidnapping
76.4236
2Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
52.5855
3Spanish (es)
Secuestro
45.1312
4Malay (ms)
Penculikan
43.6855
5Serbian (sr)
Отмица
42.4378
6Chinese (zh)
绑架
34.2065
7French (fr)
Enlèvement
33.9672
8Norwegian (no)
Kidnapping
33.4158
9Portuguese (pt)
Sequestro
33.0766
10Hebrew (he)
חטיפה
32.1998
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Kidnapping" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kidnapping
5 042 083
2Spanish (es)
Secuestro
2 611 267
3Russian (ru)
Похищение человека
591 396
4French (fr)
Enlèvement
532 352
5Japanese (ja)
拉致
485 315
6Portuguese (pt)
Sequestro
442 393
7German (de)
Entführung
421 600
8Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
344 451
9Chinese (zh)
绑架
313 671
10Swedish (sv)
Kidnappning
245 267
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Kidnapping" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kidnapping
20 480
2Spanish (es)
Secuestro
3 602
3Russian (ru)
Похищение человека
2 742
4French (fr)
Enlèvement
1 873
5Chinese (zh)
绑架
1 656
6Japanese (ja)
拉致
1 435
7German (de)
Entführung
1 326
8Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
1 275
9Persian (fa)
آدم‌ربایی
866
10Portuguese (pt)
Sequestro
711
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Kidnapping" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Kidnapping
497
2Spanish (es)
Secuestro
126
3Dutch (nl)
Ontvoering
126
4German (de)
Entführung
115
5French (fr)
Enlèvement
92
6Japanese (ja)
拉致
84
7Chinese (zh)
绑架
72
8Norwegian (no)
Kidnapping
67
9Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
65
10Hebrew (he)
חטיפה
64
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Kidnapping" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Enlèvement
3
2English (en)
Kidnapping
2
3Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
2
4German (de)
Entführung
1
5Swedish (sv)
Kidnappning
1
6Arabic (ar)
اختطاف
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Adam oğurluğu
0
8Belarusian (be)
Выкраданне чалавека
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Отвличане
0
10Catalan (ca)
Segrest
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Kidnapping" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Kidnapping
3 090
2Spanish (es)
Secuestro
998
3French (fr)
Enlèvement
769
4Chinese (zh)
绑架
655
5Portuguese (pt)
Sequestro
609
6Japanese (ja)
拉致
528
7German (de)
Entführung
513
8Hebrew (he)
חטיפה
460
9Italian (it)
Sequestro di persona
441
10Russian (ru)
Похищение человека
375
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اختطاف
azAzerbaijani
Adam oğurluğu
beBelarusian
Выкраданне чалавека
bgBulgarian
Отвличане
caCatalan
Segrest
csCzech
Únos
daDanish
Kidnapning
deGerman
Entführung
elGreek
Απαγωγή
enEnglish
Kidnapping
eoEsperanto
Homforkapto
esSpanish
Secuestro
etEstonian
Inimrööv
euBasque
Bahiketa
faPersian
آدم‌ربایی
fiFinnish
Ihmisryöstö
frFrench
Enlèvement
glGalician
Secuestro
heHebrew
חטיפה
hiHindi
अपहरण
hrCroatian
Otmica
huHungarian
Emberrablás
hyArmenian
Մարդու առևանգում
idIndonesian
Penculikan
itItalian
Sequestro di persona
jaJapanese
拉致
kkKazakh
Адамды ұрлау
koKorean
납치
ltLithuanian
Pagrobimas
msMalay
Penculikan
nlDutch
Ontvoering
noNorwegian
Kidnapping
plPolish
Porwanie (przestępstwo)
ptPortuguese
Sequestro
roRomanian
Răpire
ruRussian
Похищение человека
shSerbo-Croatian
Otmica
simpleSimple English
Kidnapping
srSerbian
Отмица
svSwedish
Kidnappning
trTurkish
Kişiyi hürriyetinden yoksun kılma
ukUkrainian
Викрадення людини
urUrdu
اغوا
viVietnamese
Bắt cóc
zhChinese
绑架

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Norwegian:
#5731
05.2020
Global:
#14893
10.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Norwegian:
#19
05.2020
Global:
#6670
04.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Kidnapping from Wikipedia articles about Natascha Kampusch, Junko Furutas murder, O. J. Simpson, Patty Hearst and Ted Bundy. Whereas reading the article about Kidnapping people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Child abduction, Ståhlberg kidnapping, List of kidnappings, Dinah and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 拉致
zh: 绑架
cs: Únos
simple: Kidnapping
ko: 납치
hr: Otmica
sh: Otmica

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