CIWS

Close-in weapon system - type of point-defense weapon system. Article “CIWS” in Danish Wikipedia has 6.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “CIWS”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 603 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 3631 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #3339 in August 2009
• Global: #8498 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #16703 in April 2024
• Global: #20381 in April 2022

There are 31 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, 2025 (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	Croatian (hr) CIWS		65.0345
2	Malay (ms) Sistem senjata rapat		53.2408
3	Estonian (et) Lähikaitse relvasüsteem		50.172
4	English (en) Close-in weapon system		49.3635
5	Indonesian (id) Sistem senjata jarak dekat		47.5227
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hệ thống vũ khí đánh gần		36.9738
7	Chinese (zh) 近迫武器系統		33.0816
8	Japanese (ja) CIWS		30.7121
9	Slovenian (sl) CIWS		25.2601
10	Turkish (tr) CIWS		24.7903

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

The most popular language versions of the article "CIWS" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Close-in weapon system		3 392 023
2	Japanese (ja) CIWS		1 436 063
3	German (de) Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem		458 144
4	Chinese (zh) 近迫武器系統		218 457
5	Italian (it) Close-In Weapon System		131 242
6	Spanish (es) CIWS		125 836
7	Polish (pl) CIWS		80 432
8	Russian (ru) Зенитно-артиллерийский комплекс		63 910
9	Dutch (nl) CIWS		46 936
10	French (fr) Système d'arme rapproché		37 656

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

The most popular language versions of the article "CIWS" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Close-in weapon system		16 439
2	Japanese (ja) CIWS		4 464
3	German (de) Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem		1 473
4	Chinese (zh) 近迫武器系統		1 204
5	Italian (it) Close-In Weapon System		1 024
6	Spanish (es) CIWS		664
7	French (fr) Système d'arme rapproché		465
8	Russian (ru) Зенитно-артиллерийский комплекс		349
9	Polish (pl) CIWS		348
10	Persian (fa) سامانه دفاع نزدیک دریایی		306

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

Language versions of the article "CIWS" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Close-in weapon system		179
2	German (de) Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem		67
3	Japanese (ja) CIWS		59
4	Chinese (zh) 近迫武器系統		44
5	Italian (it) Close-In Weapon System		37
6	Polish (pl) CIWS		20
7	French (fr) Système d'arme rapproché		18
8	Spanish (es) CIWS		17
9	Dutch (nl) CIWS		17
10	Norwegian (no) CIWS		14

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

Language versions of the article "CIWS" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Système d'arme rapproché		1
2	Arabic (ar) نظام أسلحة القتال القريب		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Зенитно-артилерийски комплекс		0
4	Catalan (ca) CIWS		0
5	Czech (cs) Systém blízké obrany		0
6	Danish (da) CIWS		0
7	German (de) Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem		0
8	English (en) Close-in weapon system		0
9	Spanish (es) CIWS		0
10	Estonian (et) Lähikaitse relvasüsteem		0

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

Language versions of the article "CIWS" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Close-in weapon system		878
2	Japanese (ja) CIWS		742
3	Chinese (zh) 近迫武器系統		229
4	Italian (it) Close-In Weapon System		219
5	German (de) Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem		217
6	French (fr) Système d'arme rapproché		208
7	Czech (cs) Systém blízké obrany		154
8	Polish (pl) CIWS		122
9	Spanish (es) CIWS		109
10	Indonesian (id) Sistem senjata jarak dekat		76

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظام أسلحة القتال القريب
bg	Bulgarian Зенитно-артилерийски комплекс
ca	Catalan CIWS
cs	Czech Systém blízké obrany
da	Danish CIWS
de	German Nahbereichsverteidigungssystem
en	English Close-in weapon system
es	Spanish CIWS
et	Estonian Lähikaitse relvasüsteem
fa	Persian سامانه دفاع نزدیک دریایی
fi	Finnish CIWS
fr	French Système d'arme rapproché
hr	Croatian CIWS
id	Indonesian Sistem senjata jarak dekat
it	Italian Close-In Weapon System
ja	Japanese CIWS
kk	Kazakh Зениттік артиллериялық кешен
ko	Korean CIWS
ms	Malay Sistem senjata rapat
nl	Dutch CIWS
no	Norwegian CIWS
pl	Polish CIWS
pt	Portuguese CIWS
ru	Russian Зенитно-артиллерийский комплекс
sl	Slovenian CIWS
sv	Swedish CIWS
th	Thai ระบบอาวุธต่อตีประชิด
tr	Turkish CIWS
uk	Ukrainian Зенітно-артилерійський комплекс
vi	Vietnamese Hệ thống vũ khí đánh gần
zh	Chinese 近迫武器系統

Best Rank

Danish: #16703 04.2024

Global: #20381 04.2022

Best Rank

Danish: #3339 08.2009

Global: #8498 02.2023

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