Special forces

Quality:

Special forces - military units trained to conduct special operations. Article “Special forces” in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9393^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9190^th most popular in all topics.

The 9444^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Special forces”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9393^rd place) and edited by 2641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9444^th place).

The article is cited 83 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15085 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #504 in May 2012
• Global: #1962 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2151 in February 2009
• Global: #2953 in May 2011

There are 43 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	German (de) Spezialeinheit		73.5893
2	English (en) Special forces		66.3639
3	Chinese (zh) 特種部隊		55.2446
4	Czech (cs) Speciální jednotka		48.2575
5	Hebrew (he) כוחות מיוחדים		47.6403
6	Ukrainian (uk) Сили спеціальних операцій		46.9815
7	Italian (it) Forze speciali		46.018
8	Malay (ms) Pasukan operasi khas		43.6794
9	Spanish (es) Fuerzas especiales		41.7948
10	French (fr) Forces spéciales		40.6705

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Special forces		11 000 118
2	Russian (ru) Формирования специального назначения		3 073 066
3	Japanese (ja) 特殊部隊		2 591 048
4	German (de) Spezialeinheit		2 157 038
5	Spanish (es) Fuerzas especiales		1 599 592
6	French (fr) Forces spéciales		1 461 162
7	Chinese (zh) 特種部隊		1 329 757
8	Italian (it) Forze speciali		1 002 845
9	Polish (pl) Siły specjalne		909 120
10	Hebrew (he) כוחות מיוחדים		626 821

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) Special forces		24 626
2	Russian (ru) Формирования специального назначения		6 614
3	Japanese (ja) 特殊部隊		5 236
4	Chinese (zh) 特種部隊		3 208
5	German (de) Spezialeinheit		2 605
6	French (fr) Forces spéciales		2 557
7	Italian (it) Forze speciali		2 077
8	Spanish (es) Fuerzas especiales		1 915
9	Polish (pl) Siły specjalne		1 363
10	Hebrew (he) כוחות מיוחדים		1 337

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Special forces		658
2	German (de) Spezialeinheit		312
3	Russian (ru) Формирования специального назначения		168
4	Hebrew (he) כוחות מיוחדים		150
5	French (fr) Forces spéciales		145
6	Japanese (ja) 特殊部隊		145
7	Italian (it) Forze speciali		122
8	Chinese (zh) 特種部隊		102
9	Spanish (es) Fuerzas especiales		98
10	Portuguese (pt) Força especial		74

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	Hebrew (he) כוחות מיוחדים		3
2	Chinese (zh) 特種部隊		3
3	Korean (ko) 특수부대		2
4	Turkish (tr) Özel kuvvetler		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Xüsusi təyinatlılar		1
6	English (en) Special forces		1
7	French (fr) Forces spéciales		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Força especial		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сили спеціальних операцій		1
10	Arabic (ar) قوات خاصة		0

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

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