Tear gas

Quality:

Tear gas - non-lethal chemical weapon. Article “Tear gas” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Tear gas”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1493 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 58 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7682 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1459 in January 2020
• Global: #2444 in June 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4283 in January 2021
• Global: #1981 in June 2020

There are 45 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	Chinese (zh) 催淚彈		100
2	English (en) Tear gas		83.4002
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сльозогінний газ		81.0615
4	French (fr) Gaz lacrymogène		59.8364
5	Hebrew (he) גז מדמיע		57.5273
6	Indonesian (id) Gas air mata		55.707
7	Catalan (ca) Gas lacrimogen		49.9376
8	Slovenian (sl) Solzivec		46.7669
9	Simple English (simple) Tear gas		39.7517
10	Spanish (es) Gas lacrimógeno		39.3691

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tear gas		5 227 791
2	Spanish (es) Gas lacrimógeno		1 120 628
3	French (fr) Gaz lacrymogène		926 273
4	Chinese (zh) 催淚彈		636 812
5	Portuguese (pt) Gás lacrimogêneo		555 811
6	German (de) Reizstoff		477 528
7	Japanese (ja) 催涙剤		394 939
8	Arabic (ar) غاز مسيل للدموع		301 100
9	Hindi (hi) अश्रु गैस		284 116
10	Russian (ru) Слезоточивый газ		280 617

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) Tear gas		8 466
2	French (fr) Gaz lacrymogène		2 088
3	Persian (fa) گاز اشک‌آور		1 222
4	Chinese (zh) 催淚彈		1 111
5	Spanish (es) Gas lacrimógeno		929
6	Japanese (ja) 催涙剤		906
7	Russian (ru) Слезоточивый газ		627
8	German (de) Reizstoff		614
9	Portuguese (pt) Gás lacrimogêneo		525
10	Italian (it) Gas lacrimogeno		326

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tear gas		344
2	French (fr) Gaz lacrymogène		147
3	German (de) Reizstoff		92
4	Chinese (zh) 催淚彈		81
5	Hungarian (hu) Könnygáz		75
6	Hebrew (he) גז מדמיע		72
7	Italian (it) Gas lacrimogeno		62
8	Dutch (nl) Traangas		59
9	Spanish (es) Gas lacrimógeno		46
10	Russian (ru) Слезоточивый газ		43

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	Catalan (ca) Gas lacrimogen		1
2	Greek (el) Δακρυγόνο		1
3	English (en) Tear gas		1
4	Basque (eu) Gas negar-eragile		1
5	Persian (fa) گاز اشک‌آور		1
6	Romanian (ro) Gaz lacrimogen		1
7	Chinese (zh) 催淚彈		1
8	Arabic (ar) غاز مسيل للدموع		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Gözyaşardıcı qaz		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Сълзотворен газ		0

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

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