Metal Slug

Metal Slug - series of video games. This video game is the 424^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 589^th most popular video game in English Wikipedia. Article “Metal Slug” in English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.54 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Metal Slug” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Metal Slug”, its content was written by 264 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1042 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Metal Slug is on the 589^th place in local ranking of video games in English Wikipedia and on the 424^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 251 times in English Wikipedia and cited 919 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13188 in December 2006
• Global: #12233 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8308 in January 2008
• Global: #10951 in July 2008

There are 21 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	Italian (it) Metal Slug (serie)		65.4151
2	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		43.9046
3	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		41.9385
4	Turkish (tr) Metal Slug		32.4855
5	Vietnamese (vi) Metal Slug		31.9703
6	English (en) Metal Slug		29.2375
7	French (fr) Metal Slug		26.9907
8	Polish (pl) Metal Slug (seria)		25.7442
9	Catalan (ca) Metal Slug		25.3853
10	Chinese (zh) 合金弹头系列		22.8784

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metal Slug		4 453 941
2	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		1 598 082
3	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		1 457 932
4	Chinese (zh) 合金弹头系列		645 400
5	Portuguese (pt) Metal Slug		396 463
6	Italian (it) Metal Slug (serie)		350 323
7	French (fr) Metal Slug		313 827
8	Korean (ko) 메탈슬러그		293 498
9	German (de) Metal Slug		195 795
10	Russian (ru) Metal Slug (серия игр)		170 583

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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 "Metal Slug" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metal Slug		11 318
2	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		3 817
3	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		3 523
4	Chinese (zh) 合金弹头系列		2 255
5	Italian (it) Metal Slug (serie)		1 860
6	Portuguese (pt) Metal Slug		1 412
7	Russian (ru) Metal Slug (серия игр)		791
8	French (fr) Metal Slug		742
9	German (de) Metal Slug		418
10	Indonesian (id) Metal Slug		217

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metal Slug		264
2	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		146
3	French (fr) Metal Slug		116
4	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		89
5	German (de) Metal Slug		80
6	Korean (ko) 메탈슬러그		77
7	Italian (it) Metal Slug (serie)		71
8	Chinese (zh) 合金弹头系列		36
9	Turkish (tr) Metal Slug		26
10	Portuguese (pt) Metal Slug		22

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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 "Metal Slug" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metal Slug		1
2	Persian (fa) متال اسلاگ		1
3	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		1
4	Korean (ko) 메탈슬러그		1
5	Arabic (ar) ميتال سلج		0
6	Catalan (ca) Metal Slug		0
7	German (de) Metal Slug		0
8	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		0
9	French (fr) Metal Slug		0
10	Hebrew (he) מטאל סלאג (סדרת משחקים)		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 "Metal Slug" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Metal Slug		251
2	Japanese (ja) メタルスラッグ		159
3	Chinese (zh) 合金弹头系列		99
4	Korean (ko) 메탈슬러그		95
5	Spanish (es) Metal Slug		59
6	French (fr) Metal Slug		48
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal Slug		45
8	Italian (it) Metal Slug (serie)		38
9	German (de) Metal Slug		23
10	Arabic (ar) ميتال سلج		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ميتال سلج
ca	Catalan Metal Slug
de	German Metal Slug
en	English Metal Slug
es	Spanish Metal Slug
fa	Persian متال اسلاگ
fr	French Metal Slug
he	Hebrew מטאל סלאג (סדרת משחקים)
id	Indonesian Metal Slug
it	Italian Metal Slug (serie)
ja	Japanese メタルスラッグ
ko	Korean 메탈슬러그
nl	Dutch Metal Slug
pl	Polish Metal Slug (seria)
pt	Portuguese Metal Slug
ru	Russian Metal Slug (серия игр)
simple	Simple English Metal Slug (series)
sv	Swedish Metal Slug
tr	Turkish Metal Slug
vi	Vietnamese Metal Slug
zh	Chinese 合金弹头系列

Best Rank

English: #8308 01.2008

Global: #10951 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #13188 12.2006

Global: #12233 08.2014

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