Energiewaffe

Quality:

Directed-energy weapon - type of weapon that fires a concentrated beam of energy at its target. Article “Energiewaffe” in German Wikipedia has 53.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Energiewaffe”, its content was written by 93 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1108 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 104 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1396 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #7391 in March 2015
• Global: #4983 in May 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #9669 in March 2022
• Global: #2960 in August 2023

There are 20 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	English (en) Directed-energy weapon		90.3694
2	Spanish (es) Arma de energía dirigida		64.8761
3	German (de) Energiewaffe		53.3331
4	French (fr) Arme à énergie dirigée		46.8009
5	Arabic (ar) سلاح طاقة موجهة		42.1535
6	Japanese (ja) 指向性エネルギー兵器		36.9068
7	Finnish (fi) Energia-ase		33.423
8	Catalan (ca) Arma d'energia dirigida		29.0917
9	Italian (it) Arma ad energia diretta		25.2809
10	Thai (th) อาวุธพลังงานแนวตรง		23.3835

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Directed-energy weapon		7 799 932
2	German (de) Energiewaffe		630 141
3	Japanese (ja) 指向性エネルギー兵器		601 409
4	French (fr) Arme à énergie dirigée		282 366
5	Russian (ru) Оружие направленной энергии		159 652
6	Chinese (zh) 能量武器		82 526
7	Spanish (es) Arma de energía dirigida		73 567
8	Finnish (fi) Energia-ase		58 382
9	Portuguese (pt) Arma de energia dirigida		47 746
10	Czech (cs) Zbraň se směrovanou energií		36 770

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) Directed-energy weapon		34 857
2	Japanese (ja) 指向性エネルギー兵器		2 876
3	German (de) Energiewaffe		2 610
4	French (fr) Arme à énergie dirigée		1 460
5	Russian (ru) Оружие направленной энергии		921
6	Spanish (es) Arma de energía dirigida		736
7	Arabic (ar) سلاح طاقة موجهة		451
8	Chinese (zh) 能量武器		428
9	Persian (fa) جنگ‌افزار انرژی هدایت‌شده		367
10	Italian (it) Arma ad energia diretta		355

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Directed-energy weapon		744
2	German (de) Energiewaffe		93
3	French (fr) Arme à énergie dirigée		73
4	Japanese (ja) 指向性エネルギー兵器		37
5	Finnish (fi) Energia-ase		23
6	Spanish (es) Arma de energía dirigida		20
7	Vietnamese (vi) Vũ khí năng lượng định hướng		15
8	Chinese (zh) 能量武器		13
9	Russian (ru) Оружие направленной энергии		12
10	Czech (cs) Zbraň se směrovanou energií		11

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	Arabic (ar) سلاح طاقة موجهة		3
2	French (fr) Arme à énergie dirigée		2
3	English (en) Directed-energy weapon		1
4	Thai (th) อาวุธพลังงานแนวตรง		1
5	Catalan (ca) Arma d'energia dirigida		0
6	Czech (cs) Zbraň se směrovanou energií		0
7	German (de) Energiewaffe		0
8	Spanish (es) Arma de energía dirigida		0
9	Persian (fa) جنگ‌افزار انرژی هدایت‌شده		0
10	Finnish (fi) Energia-ase		0

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

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