Metal Gear (video game)

Quality:

Metal Gear - overhead military stealth video game originally released in 1987 by Konami. This video game is the 378^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 527^th most popular video game in English Wikipedia. Article "Metal Gear (video game)" in English Wikipedia has 72.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 73 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 527^th most popular in video games in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 378^th most popular in video games.

In July 2024 the article "Metal Gear (video game)" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Metal Gear (video game)", its content was written by 352 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 869 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Metal Gear is on the 527^th place in local ranking of video games in English Wikipedia and on the 378^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 116 times in English Wikipedia and cited 961 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2286 in September 2015
• Global: #3968 in September 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1902 in September 2015
• Global: #1629 in September 2015

There are 24 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Metal Gear (video game)		72.7737
2	Italian (it) Metal Gear		44.9647
3	Russian (ru) Metal Gear (игра)		40.9588
4	Chinese (zh) 合金装备 (1987年游戏)		24.3517
5	German (de) Metal Gear (Computerspiel)		23.8689
6	French (fr) Metal Gear (jeu vidéo)		23.7538
7	Japanese (ja) メタルギア		22.9316
8	Persian (fa) متال گیر		20.5566
9	Spanish (es) Metal Gear (videojuego)		20.3215
10	Finnish (fi) Metal Gear		19.3302

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metal Gear (video game)		4 424 461
2	Japanese (ja) メタルギア		3 445 746
3	Russian (ru) Metal Gear (игра)		725 182
4	Italian (it) Metal Gear		531 739
5	Spanish (es) Metal Gear (videojuego)		354 322
6	French (fr) Metal Gear (jeu vidéo)		219 964
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal Gear (jogo eletrônico)		167 188
8	Chinese (zh) 合金装备 (1987年游戏)		72 804
9	Finnish (fi) Metal Gear		64 198
10	Swedish (sv) Metal Gear		38 395

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) Metal Gear (video game)		24 638
2	Japanese (ja) メタルギア		4 859
3	Italian (it) Metal Gear		2 524
4	Russian (ru) Metal Gear (игра)		1 413
5	Spanish (es) Metal Gear (videojuego)		1 351
6	French (fr) Metal Gear (jeu vidéo)		769
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal Gear (jogo eletrônico)		603
8	Chinese (zh) 合金装备 (1987年游戏)		595
9	German (de) Metal Gear (Computerspiel)		366
10	Persian (fa) متال گیر		293

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metal Gear (video game)		352
2	Japanese (ja) メタルギア		104
3	Italian (it) Metal Gear		73
4	Spanish (es) Metal Gear (videojuego)		56
5	French (fr) Metal Gear (jeu vidéo)		52
6	Russian (ru) Metal Gear (игра)		38
7	Portuguese (pt) Metal Gear (jogo eletrônico)		27
8	Finnish (fi) Metal Gear		24
9	Ukrainian (uk) Metal Gear		17
10	Swedish (sv) Metal Gear		16

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) Metal Gear (video game)		2
2	Portuguese (pt) Metal Gear (jogo eletrônico)		1
3	Simple English (simple) Metal Gear (video game)		1
4	Arabic (ar) ميتال غير		0
5	Catalan (ca) Metal Gear (joc)		0
6	Danish (da) Metal Gear		0
7	German (de) Metal Gear (Computerspiel)		0
8	Spanish (es) Metal Gear (videojuego)		0
9	Basque (eu) Metal Gear (bideo-jokoa)		0
10	Persian (fa) متال گیر		0

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

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