Chemical warfare

Quality:

Chemical warfare - type of warfare that involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. Article “Chemical warfare” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.16 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Chemical warfare”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6820^th place) and edited by 1395 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 148 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5657 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #456 in April 2005
• Global: #491 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4356 in September 2013
• Global: #6171 in April 2017

There are 30 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) Chemical warfare		89.7471
2	Korean (ko) 화학전		79.9527
3	Simple English (simple) Chemical warfare		41.1046
4	Chinese (zh) 化学战		39.1152
5	Italian (it) Guerra chimica		35.6371
6	Tamil (ta) வேதிப் போர்		28.8746
7	Swedish (sv) Kemisk krigföring		24.5987
8	Turkish (tr) Kimyasal savaş		22.6958
9	Arabic (ar) حرب كيماوية		20.8325
10	Russian (ru) Боевые отравляющие вещества		20.3775

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chemical warfare		4 822 420
2	Russian (ru) Боевые отравляющие вещества		1 487 470
3	Portuguese (pt) Guerra química		375 900
4	Arabic (ar) حرب كيماوية		371 114
5	Spanish (es) Guerra química		317 264
6	Italian (it) Guerra chimica		304 252
7	Turkish (tr) Kimyasal savaş		235 851
8	Kazakh (kk) Химиялық қару		133 485
9	Ukrainian (uk) Бойові отруйні речовини		102 157
10	Thai (th) การสงครามเคมี		51 918

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) Chemical warfare		6 314
2	Russian (ru) Боевые отравляющие вещества		3 002
3	Italian (it) Guerra chimica		844
4	Spanish (es) Guerra química		215
5	Korean (ko) 화학전		198
6	Chinese (zh) 化学战		184
7	Persian (fa) جنگ شیمیایی		170
8	Ukrainian (uk) Бойові отруйні речовини		160
9	Portuguese (pt) Guerra química		133
10	Turkish (tr) Kimyasal savaş		124

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chemical warfare		803
2	Russian (ru) Боевые отравляющие вещества		91
3	Italian (it) Guerra chimica		82
4	Portuguese (pt) Guerra química		61
5	Arabic (ar) حرب كيماوية		43
6	Turkish (tr) Kimyasal savaş		39
7	Spanish (es) Guerra química		34
8	Norwegian (no) Kjemisk krigføring		33
9	Simple English (simple) Chemical warfare		30
10	Croatian (hr) Kemijsko ratovanje		23

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	English (en) Chemical warfare		2
2	Arabic (ar) حرب كيماوية		1
3	Spanish (es) Guerra química		1
4	Italian (it) Guerra chimica		1
5	Korean (ko) 화학전		1
6	Catalan (ca) Guerra química		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Ĥemia milito		0
8	Basque (eu) Gerra kimiko		0
9	Persian (fa) جنگ شیمیایی		0
10	Hebrew (he) לוחמה כימית		0

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

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