Selous Scouts

Selous Scouts - Rhodesian Special Forces Unit during the Bush War. Article “Selous Scouts” in English Wikipedia has 80.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 127 references and 14 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 “Selous Scouts” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Selous Scouts”, its content was written by 164 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 105 times in English Wikipedia and cited 211 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13650 in November 2021
• Global: #39544 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52844 in November 2017
• Global: #91641 in November 2017

There are 12 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) Selous Scouts		80.898
2	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		48.836
3	Italian (it) Selous Scout		25.0534
4	Russian (ru) Скауты Селуса		19.7577
5	German (de) Selous Scouts		19.5895
6	Norwegian (no) Selous Scouts		14.7487
7	Japanese (ja) セルース・スカウツ		13.8193
8	French (fr) Selous Scouts		11.7189
9	Ukrainian (uk) Скаути Селуса		8.186
10	Greek (el) Ανιχνευτές Σέλους		4.1789

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Selous Scouts		1 428 995
2	Russian (ru) Скауты Селуса		99 351
3	German (de) Selous Scouts		67 132
4	Italian (it) Selous Scout		49 985
5	French (fr) Selous Scouts		34 111
6	Japanese (ja) セルース・スカウツ		14 412
7	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		9 278
8	Dutch (nl) Selous Scouts		8 772
9	Ukrainian (uk) Скаути Селуса		4 415
10	Norwegian (no) Selous Scouts		3 976

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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 "Selous Scouts" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Selous Scouts		7 048
2	Russian (ru) Скауты Селуса		1 162
3	German (de) Selous Scouts		351
4	Japanese (ja) セルース・スカウツ		215
5	Italian (it) Selous Scout		185
6	French (fr) Selous Scouts		141
7	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		109
8	Ukrainian (uk) Скаути Селуса		91
9	Dutch (nl) Selous Scouts		27
10	Greek (el) Ανιχνευτές Σέλους		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Selous Scouts		164
2	German (de) Selous Scouts		39
3	Italian (it) Selous Scout		36
4	French (fr) Selous Scouts		25
5	Norwegian (no) Selous Scouts		12
6	Ukrainian (uk) Скаути Селуса		12
7	Russian (ru) Скауты Селуса		11
8	Dutch (nl) Selous Scouts		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		6
10	Greek (el) Ανιχνευτές Σέλους		5

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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 "Selous Scouts" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Selous Scouts		2
2	German (de) Selous Scouts		1
3	Greek (el) Ανιχνευτές Σέλους		0
4	French (fr) Selous Scouts		0
5	Italian (it) Selous Scout		0
6	Japanese (ja) セルース・スカウツ		0
7	Korean (ko) 설루 척후대		0
8	Dutch (nl) Selous Scouts		0
9	Norwegian (no) Selous Scouts		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		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 "Selous Scouts" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Selous Scouts		105
2	French (fr) Selous Scouts		33
3	Russian (ru) Скауты Селуса		24
4	German (de) Selous Scouts		14
5	Portuguese (pt) Selous Scouts		9
6	Italian (it) Selous Scout		8
7	Japanese (ja) セルース・スカウツ		8
8	Dutch (nl) Selous Scouts		3
9	Ukrainian (uk) Скаути Селуса		3
10	Korean (ko) 설루 척후대		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Selous Scouts
el	Greek Ανιχνευτές Σέλους
en	English Selous Scouts
fr	French Selous Scouts
it	Italian Selous Scout
ja	Japanese セルース・スカウツ
ko	Korean 설루 척후대
nl	Dutch Selous Scouts
no	Norwegian Selous Scouts
pt	Portuguese Selous Scouts
ru	Russian Скауты Селуса
uk	Ukrainian Скаути Селуса

Best Rank

English: #52844 11.2017

Global: #91641 11.2017

Best Rank

English: #13650 11.2021

Global: #39544 09.2010

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