Electroshock weapon

Quality:

Electroshock weapon - incapacitating weapon which delivers an electric shock aimed at temporarily disrupting muscle functions and/or inflicting pain without causing significant injury. Article “Electroshock weapon” in English Wikipedia has 86.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 159 references and 45 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.53 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Electroshock weapon” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Electroshock weapon”, its content was written by 440 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1329 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 304 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1711 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2107 in November 2007
• Global: #4870 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2862 in July 2011
• Global: #5874 in July 2011

There are 28 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) Electroshock weapon		86.0502
2	Turkish (tr) Elektroşok silahı		45.9942
3	French (fr) Pistolet à impulsion électrique		43.0551
4	Spanish (es) Arma de electrochoque		40.8529
5	Dutch (nl) Stroomstootwapen		38.7757
6	German (de) Elektroimpulswaffe		38.5805
7	Malay (ms) Senjata perenjat		37.1617
8	Estonian (et) Elektrišokirelv		30.9085
9	Ukrainian (uk) Електрошоковий пристрій		29.609
10	Portuguese (pt) Arma de eletrochoque		29.5909

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electroshock weapon		4 872 569
2	Spanish (es) Arma de electrochoque		1 325 806
3	Japanese (ja) スタンガン		1 309 030
4	French (fr) Pistolet à impulsion électrique		1 192 877
5	German (de) Elektroimpulswaffe		800 100
6	Russian (ru) Электрошоковое оружие		488 584
7	Portuguese (pt) Arma de eletrochoque		336 747
8	Dutch (nl) Stroomstootwapen		290 506
9	Chinese (zh) 電槍		178 163
10	Polish (pl) Paralizator		161 879

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) Electroshock weapon		12 146
2	French (fr) Pistolet à impulsion électrique		3 268
3	Spanish (es) Arma de electrochoque		2 961
4	Japanese (ja) スタンガン		2 011
5	German (de) Elektroimpulswaffe		2 004
6	Russian (ru) Электрошоковое оружие		1 357
7	Chinese (zh) 電槍		959
8	Dutch (nl) Stroomstootwapen		571
9	Turkish (tr) Elektroşok silahı		459
10	Portuguese (pt) Arma de eletrochoque		433

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electroshock weapon		440
2	French (fr) Pistolet à impulsion électrique		217
3	Russian (ru) Электрошоковое оружие		98
4	German (de) Elektroimpulswaffe		95
5	Spanish (es) Arma de electrochoque		69
6	Japanese (ja) スタンガン		55
7	Dutch (nl) Stroomstootwapen		49
8	Portuguese (pt) Arma de eletrochoque		40
9	Swedish (sv) Elchockvapen		36
10	Norwegian (no) Elektrosjokkvåpen		32

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) Electroshock weapon		1
2	Spanish (es) Arma de electrochoque		1
3	Estonian (et) Elektrišokirelv		1
4	Persian (fa) باتون برقی		1
5	Dutch (nl) Stroomstootwapen		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Електрошоково оръжие		0
7	Catalan (ca) Arma d'electroxoc		0
8	Czech (cs) Elektrický paralyzér		0
9	Danish (da) Elektrochokvåben		0
10	German (de) Elektroimpulswaffe		0

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

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