Flamethrower

Quality:

Flamethrower - mechanical incendiary device designed to project a long controllable stream of fire. Article “Flamethrower” in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 135 references and 23 sections.

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 “Flamethrower” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flamethrower”, its content was written by 590 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1759 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1017 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7207 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1816 in January 2003
• Global: #3865 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3848 in January 2011
• Global: #7253 in July 2011

There are 43 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) Flamethrower		96.2038
2	Hungarian (hu) Lángszóró		84.6462
3	Swedish (sv) Eldkastare		68.9927
4	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		55.0293
5	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		54.7494
6	German (de) Flammenwerfer		53.2483
7	French (fr) Lance-flammes		35.4644
8	Arabic (ar) قاذفة لهب		33.3011
9	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		32.6695
10	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		29.2166

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flamethrower		7 003 318
2	German (de) Flammenwerfer		1 175 397
3	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		1 038 963
4	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		828 002
5	French (fr) Lance-flammes		523 110
6	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		503 910
7	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		361 187
8	Portuguese (pt) Lança-chamas		336 462
9	Polish (pl) Miotacz ognia		328 998
10	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		244 439

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) Flamethrower		19 851
2	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		3 181
3	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		2 676
4	German (de) Flammenwerfer		2 407
5	French (fr) Lance-flammes		1 462
6	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		1 384
7	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		1 093
8	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		905
9	Polish (pl) Miotacz ognia		667
10	Hebrew (he) להביור		375

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flamethrower		590
2	German (de) Flammenwerfer		197
3	French (fr) Lance-flammes		112
4	Russian (ru) Огнемёт		82
5	Italian (it) Lanciafiamme		74
6	Japanese (ja) 火炎放射器		67
7	Hebrew (he) להביור		56
8	Dutch (nl) Vlammenwerper		56
9	Spanish (es) Lanzallamas		46
10	Chinese (zh) 火焰喷射器		45

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) Flamethrower		3
2	Malay (ms) Penyembur api		1
3	Arabic (ar) قاذفة لهب		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Odsaçan		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Огнехвъргачка		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llançaflames		0
7	Czech (cs) Plamenomet		0
8	Danish (da) Flammekaster		0
9	German (de) Flammenwerfer		0
10	Greek (el) Φλογοβόλο		0

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

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