Askari

Askari - locally recruited African soldier serving in the army of a European colonial power.. Article “Askari” in English Wikipedia has 58.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 16 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Askari” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Askari”, its content was written by 171 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 671 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 217 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1068 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17857 in October 2012
• Global: #8161 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1032 in October 2012
• Global: #3284 in July 2016

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) Askari		58.6475
2	German (de) Askari		52.2038
3	Italian (it) Ascari		49.1052
4	French (fr) Askari		42.2424
5	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		35.7108
6	Arabic (ar) عسكري (جندي)		31.1038
7	Persian (fa) عسکری (مزدور آفریقایی)		28.1409
8	Czech (cs) Askari		27.2969
9	Basque (eu) Askari (soldadua)		22.5789
10	Catalan (ca) Àscari		19.8795

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Askari		1 998 008
2	Italian (it) Ascari		608 135
3	German (de) Askari		521 957
4	Polish (pl) Askarysi		184 760
5	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		95 652
6	French (fr) Askari		85 492
7	Spanish (es) Askari		71 345
8	Japanese (ja) アスカリ (兵士)		65 944
9	Portuguese (pt) Askari		21 619
10	Arabic (ar) عسكري (جندي)		20 110

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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 "Askari" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Askari		7 074
2	German (de) Askari		2 182
3	Italian (it) Ascari		1 828
4	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		604
5	Polish (pl) Askarysi		498
6	French (fr) Askari		452
7	Spanish (es) Askari		411
8	Japanese (ja) アスカリ (兵士)		262
9	Arabic (ar) عسكري (جندي)		124
10	Portuguese (pt) Askari		123

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Askari		171
2	German (de) Askari		123
3	Italian (it) Ascari		122
4	Polish (pl) Askarysi		31
5	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		31
6	French (fr) Askari		28
7	Galician (gl) Askari		19
8	Norwegian (no) Askari		19
9	Japanese (ja) アスカリ (兵士)		18
10	Danish (da) Askari		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 "Askari" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Askari		1
2	English (en) Askari		1
3	Finnish (fi) Askari		1
4	Italian (it) Ascari		1
5	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		1
6	Arabic (ar) عسكري (جندي)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Àscari		0
8	Czech (cs) Askari		0
9	Danish (da) Askari		0
10	Spanish (es) Askari		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 "Askari" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Ascari		224
2	English (en) Askari		217
3	German (de) Askari		134
4	French (fr) Askari		88
5	Russian (ru) Аскари (армия)		49
6	Spanish (es) Askari		48
7	Arabic (ar) عسكري (جندي)		41
8	Polish (pl) Askarysi		34
9	Hebrew (he) אסקרי		31
10	Catalan (ca) Àscari		30

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عسكري (جندي)
ca	Catalan Àscari
cs	Czech Askari
da	Danish Askari
de	German Askari
en	English Askari
es	Spanish Askari
eu	Basque Askari (soldadua)
fa	Persian عسکری (مزدور آفریقایی)
fi	Finnish Askari
fr	French Askari
gl	Galician Askari
he	Hebrew אסקרי
hy	Armenian Ասկարի
id	Indonesian Askari
it	Italian Ascari
ja	Japanese アスカリ (兵士)
nl	Dutch Askari
no	Norwegian Askari
pl	Polish Askarysi
pt	Portuguese Askari
ru	Russian Аскари (армия)
sv	Swedish Askari
th	Thai อัสคารี
uk	Ukrainian Аскарі (військо)
zh	Chinese 阿斯卡里 (非洲)

Best Rank

English: #1032 10.2012

Global: #3284 07.2016

Best Rank

English: #17857 10.2012

Global: #8161 03.2004

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