Friendly fire

Friendly fire - type of incident with an attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones. Article “Friendly fire” in English Wikipedia has 56.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 18 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 2026 the article “Friendly fire” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Friendly fire”, its content was written by 477 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1161 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1250 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4137 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1706 in April 2003
• Global: #2377 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18180 in March 2026
• Global: #22215 in March 2026

There are 31 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) Friendly fire		56.5103
2	Chinese (zh) 友军误伤		39.585
3	German (de) Eigenbeschuss		34.0539
4	Hebrew (he) ירי דו-צדדי		33.2992
5	Romanian (ro) Foc fratricid		30.2662
6	Catalan (ca) Foc amic		28.5536
7	Polish (pl) Bratobójczy ogień		25.7449
8	Bulgarian (bg) Приятелски огън		23.463
9	Turkish (tr) Dost ateşi		23.0505
10	Swedish (sv) Vådabekämpning		22.7112

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friendly fire		3 452 502
2	Russian (ru) Огонь по своим		757 757
3	German (de) Eigenbeschuss		556 195
4	Japanese (ja) 同士討ち		238 784
5	Spanish (es) Fuego amigo		177 169
6	French (fr) Tir ami		158 816
7	Polish (pl) Bratobójczy ogień		152 088
8	Italian (it) Fuoco amico		113 161
9	Hebrew (he) ירי דו-צדדי		88 367
10	Portuguese (pt) Fogo amigo		70 713

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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 "Friendly fire" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friendly fire		10 518
2	Russian (ru) Огонь по своим		1 799
3	Japanese (ja) 同士討ち		1 099
4	German (de) Eigenbeschuss		916
5	French (fr) Tir ami		426
6	Polish (pl) Bratobójczy ogień		379
7	Persian (fa) آتش خودی		371
8	Chinese (zh) 友军误伤		314
9	Spanish (es) Fuego amigo		285
10	Italian (it) Fuoco amico		205

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friendly fire		477
2	German (de) Eigenbeschuss		111
3	Russian (ru) Огонь по своим		108
4	Hebrew (he) ירי דו-צדדי		73
5	Italian (it) Fuoco amico		59
6	Polish (pl) Bratobójczy ogień		49
7	French (fr) Tir ami		47
8	Dutch (nl) Eigen vuur		38
9	Japanese (ja) 同士討ち		35
10	Spanish (es) Fuego amigo		27

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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 "Friendly fire" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) ירי דו-צדדי		2
2	Catalan (ca) Foc amic		1
3	English (en) Friendly fire		1
4	Basque (eu) Alderdi bereko su		1
5	Chinese (zh) 友军误伤		1
6	Arabic (ar) نيران صديقة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dost atəşi		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Приятелски огън		0
9	Czech (cs) Palba do vlastních řad		0
10	Danish (da) Egenbeskydning		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 "Friendly fire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Friendly fire		1 250
2	Japanese (ja) 同士討ち		326
3	French (fr) Tir ami		305
4	German (de) Eigenbeschuss		277
5	Russian (ru) Огонь по своим		274
6	Hebrew (he) ירי דו-צדדי		242
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дружній вогонь		222
8	Spanish (es) Fuego amigo		191
9	Italian (it) Fuoco amico		191
10	Polish (pl) Bratobójczy ogień		132

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نيران صديقة
az	Azerbaijani Dost atəşi
bg	Bulgarian Приятелски огън
ca	Catalan Foc amic
cs	Czech Palba do vlastních řad
da	Danish Egenbeskydning
de	German Eigenbeschuss
el	Greek Φίλια πυρά
en	English Friendly fire
eo	Esperanto Amika pafo
es	Spanish Fuego amigo
eu	Basque Alderdi bereko su
fa	Persian آتش خودی
fr	French Tir ami
he	Hebrew ירי דו-צדדי
id	Indonesian Salah serang
it	Italian Fuoco amico
ja	Japanese 同士討ち
ko	Korean 아군 사격
nl	Dutch Eigen vuur
pl	Polish Bratobójczy ogień
pt	Portuguese Fogo amigo
ro	Romanian Foc fratricid
ru	Russian Огонь по своим
simple	Simple English Friendly fire
sv	Swedish Vådabekämpning
tr	Turkish Dost ateşi
uk	Ukrainian Дружній вогонь
ur	Urdu دوستانہ گولی باری
vi	Vietnamese Quân ta bắn quân mình
zh	Chinese 友军误伤

Best Rank

English: #18180 03.2026

Global: #22215 03.2026

Best Rank

English: #1706 04.2003

Global: #2377 03.2003

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