Mercenario

Quality:

Mercenary - soldier who fights for hire. Article “Mercenario” in Italian Wikipedia has 33.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.77 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 9772^nd most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8620^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Mercenario”, its content was written by 163 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (9772^nd place) and edited by 2767 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8620^th place).

The article is cited 1395 times in Italian Wikipedia (6208^th place) and cited 19366 times in all languages (8917^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #752 in March 2019
• Global: #2313 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #2287 in September 2010
• Global: #3749 in June 2023

There are 48 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	Catalan (ca) Mercenari		99.8921
2	English (en) Mercenary		94.5787
3	Romanian (ro) Mercenar		55.8269
4	German (de) Söldner		55.3004
5	Polish (pl) Wojsko najemne		43.6399
6	Croatian (hr) Plaćenici		40.6234
7	Latin (la) Miles mercennarius		39.8093
8	French (fr) Mercenaire		39.4917
9	Russian (ru) Наёмник		35.2241
10	Korean (ko) 용병		35.0846

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercenary		10 461 061
2	Spanish (es) Mercenario		2 184 402
3	Japanese (ja) 傭兵		1 988 557
4	German (de) Söldner		1 837 686
5	Russian (ru) Наёмник		1 220 447
6	French (fr) Mercenaire		1 091 873
7	Portuguese (pt) Mercenário		824 770
8	Italian (it) Mercenario		769 431
9	Chinese (zh) 僱傭兵		742 467
10	Polish (pl) Wojsko najemne		437 026

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercenary		20 598
2	Japanese (ja) 傭兵		3 312
3	Russian (ru) Наёмник		2 596
4	Spanish (es) Mercenario		2 519
5	German (de) Söldner		2 494
6	French (fr) Mercenaire		1 507
7	Chinese (zh) 僱傭兵		1 418
8	Italian (it) Mercenario		831
9	Polish (pl) Wojsko najemne		769
10	Persian (fa) مزدور		673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mercenary		824
2	German (de) Söldner		336
3	French (fr) Mercenaire		205
4	Italian (it) Mercenario		163
5	Japanese (ja) 傭兵		156
6	Spanish (es) Mercenario		119
7	Russian (ru) Наёмник		96
8	Portuguese (pt) Mercenário		61
9	Dutch (nl) Huursoldaat		56
10	Chinese (zh) 僱傭兵		55

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Söldner		3
2	English (en) Mercenary		3
3	Arabic (ar) مرتزق		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Muzdlu döyüşçü		1
5	Catalan (ca) Mercenari		1
6	Spanish (es) Mercenario		1
7	Basque (eu) Mertzenario		1
8	Galician (gl) Mercenario		1
9	Russian (ru) Наёмник		1
10	Belarusian (be) Найміт		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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