Gun salute

Gun salute - shots from an artillery gun performed as a military honour. Article “Gun salute” in English Wikipedia has 33.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Gun salute”, its content was written by 20 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 308 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 312 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1322 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #105273 in October 2022
• Global: #53228 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #129587 in February 2009
• Global: #16706 in October 2019

There are 16 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	French (fr) Salut au canon		35.8861
2	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		35.5842
3	German (de) Salutschuss		34.1727
4	English (en) Gun salute		33.3841
5	Portuguese (pt) Salva de tiros		22.5395
6	Russian (ru) Оружейный салют		20.7919
7	Thai (th) การยิงสลุต		20.6909
8	Finnish (fi) Kunnialaukaus		19.8519
9	Polish (pl) Salwa honorowa		18.5869
10	Spanish (es) Salva (militar)		17.3667

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		357 308
2	German (de) Salutschuss		262 290
3	English (en) Gun salute		191 778
4	Polish (pl) Salwa honorowa		107 992
5	Portuguese (pt) Salva de tiros		91 499
6	Norwegian (no) Salutt		77 684
7	Thai (th) การยิงสลุต		67 851
8	Swedish (sv) Salut		67 611
9	French (fr) Salut au canon		63 458
10	Dutch (nl) Saluutschot		43 734

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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 "Gun salute" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gun salute		2 759
2	German (de) Salutschuss		675
3	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		638
4	Thai (th) การยิงสลุต		411
5	French (fr) Salut au canon		315
6	Russian (ru) Оружейный салют		250
7	Norwegian (no) Salutt		208
8	Polish (pl) Salwa honorowa		164
9	Portuguese (pt) Salva de tiros		143
10	Dutch (nl) Saluutschot		118

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Salutschuss		72
2	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		48
3	Dutch (nl) Saluutschot		32
4	Norwegian (no) Salutt		29
5	English (en) Gun salute		20
6	Danish (da) Salut		17
7	French (fr) Salut au canon		15
8	Polish (pl) Salwa honorowa		15
9	Swedish (sv) Salut		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Salva de tiros		10

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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 "Gun salute" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) การยิงสลุต		1
2	Czech (cs) Salva		0
3	Danish (da) Salut		0
4	German (de) Salutschuss		0
5	English (en) Gun salute		0
6	Spanish (es) Salva (militar)		0
7	Estonian (et) Saluut		0
8	Finnish (fi) Kunnialaukaus		0
9	French (fr) Salut au canon		0
10	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		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 "Gun salute" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 礼砲		408
2	English (en) Gun salute		312
3	German (de) Salutschuss		177
4	Swedish (sv) Salut		95
5	Polish (pl) Salwa honorowa		50
6	Danish (da) Salut		47
7	Portuguese (pt) Salva de tiros		44
8	Dutch (nl) Saluutschot		40
9	Norwegian (no) Salutt		35
10	French (fr) Salut au canon		28

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Salva
da	Danish Salut
de	German Salutschuss
en	English Gun salute
es	Spanish Salva (militar)
et	Estonian Saluut
fi	Finnish Kunnialaukaus
fr	French Salut au canon
ja	Japanese 礼砲
nl	Dutch Saluutschot
no	Norwegian Salutt
pl	Polish Salwa honorowa
pt	Portuguese Salva de tiros
ru	Russian Оружейный салют
sv	Swedish Salut
th	Thai การยิงสลุต

Best Rank

English: #129587 02.2009

Global: #16706 10.2019

Best Rank

English: #105273 10.2022

Global: #53228 07.2004

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