Free-ranging dog

Free-ranging dog - any dog that is not contained. Article “Free-ranging dog” in English Wikipedia has 87.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 176 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.73 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Free-ranging dog” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Free-ranging dog”, its content was written by 391 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 712 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 626 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1765 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5474 in April 2020
• Global: #17320 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56652 in March 2023
• Global: #65057 in June 2021

There are 15 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	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		88.382
2	English (en) Free-ranging dog		87.5865
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chó hoang		53.384
4	Spanish (es) Perro suelto		47.4082
5	Armenian (hy) Թափառող շուն		46.268
6	Hungarian (hu) Kóbor kutya		40.377
7	French (fr) Chien errant		38.5563
8	Portuguese (pt) Cão semisselvagem		37.876
9	Chinese (zh) 流浪犬		34.7632
10	Japanese (ja) 野犬		32.7513

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Free-ranging dog" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free-ranging dog		2 424 318
2	Japanese (ja) 野犬		462 342
3	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		345 508
4	Persian (fa) سگ ولگرد		165 461
5	Chinese (zh) 流浪犬		116 842
6	French (fr) Chien errant		69 497
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chó hoang		28 545
8	Hungarian (hu) Kóbor kutya		16 060
9	Greek (el) Ελεύθερος σκύλος		8 071
10	Malay (ms) Anjing bebas merantau		5 071

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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 "Free-ranging dog" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free-ranging dog		13 042
2	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		1 526
3	Japanese (ja) 野犬		1 503
4	Portuguese (pt) Cão semisselvagem		531
5	Chinese (zh) 流浪犬		525
6	Persian (fa) سگ ولگرد		369
7	French (fr) Chien errant		343
8	Spanish (es) Perro suelto		161
9	Hungarian (hu) Kóbor kutya		113
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chó hoang		105

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Free-ranging dog		391
2	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		84
3	Chinese (zh) 流浪犬		68
4	Japanese (ja) 野犬		59
5	Persian (fa) سگ ولگرد		26
6	French (fr) Chien errant		22
7	Hungarian (hu) Kóbor kutya		19
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chó hoang		15
9	Greek (el) Ελεύθερος σκύλος		9
10	Spanish (es) Perro suelto		6

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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 "Free-ranging dog" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 떠돌이 개		2
2	Portuguese (pt) Cão semisselvagem		2
3	English (en) Free-ranging dog		1
4	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		1
5	Greek (el) Ελεύθερος σκύλος		0
6	Spanish (es) Perro suelto		0
7	Persian (fa) سگ ولگرد		0
8	French (fr) Chien errant		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Kóbor kutya		0
10	Armenian (hy) Թափառող շուն		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 "Free-ranging dog" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Free-ranging dog		626
2	Malay (ms) Anjing bebas merantau		272
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chó hoang		269
4	Japanese (ja) 野犬		150
5	Chinese (zh) 流浪犬		136
6	Russian (ru) Бродячие собаки		130
7	French (fr) Chien errant		57
8	Persian (fa) سگ ولگرد		43
9	Korean (ko) 떠돌이 개		33
10	Portuguese (pt) Cão semisselvagem		30

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#	Language	Value
el	Greek Ελεύθερος σκύλος
en	English Free-ranging dog
es	Spanish Perro suelto
fa	Persian سگ ولگرد
fr	French Chien errant
hu	Hungarian Kóbor kutya
hy	Armenian Թափառող շուն
ja	Japanese 野犬
ko	Korean 떠돌이 개
ms	Malay Anjing bebas merantau
pt	Portuguese Cão semisselvagem
ru	Russian Бродячие собаки
sv	Swedish Herrelös hund
vi	Vietnamese Chó hoang
zh	Chinese 流浪犬

Best Rank

English: #56652 03.2023

Global: #65057 06.2021

Best Rank

English: #5474 04.2020

Global: #17320 05.2025

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