Gunpowder

Quality:

Gunpowder - explosive most commonly used as propellant in firearms. Article “Gunpowder” in English Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 196 references and 25 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3065^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8359^th most popular in all topics.

The 5362^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Gunpowder” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Gunpowder”, its content was written by 1342 registered users of English Wikipedia (3065^th place) and edited by 3430 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5362^nd place).

The article is cited 2837 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12551 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #71 in February 2002
• Global: #101 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6040 in February 2017
• Global: #6079 in February 2017

There are 51 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) Gunpowder		97.1136
2	Portuguese (pt) Pólvora		95.2339
3	Ukrainian (uk) Димний порох		93.8642
4	Esperanto (eo) Pulvo		86.8206
5	Tamil (ta) வெடிமருந்து		79.3195
6	Basque (eu) Bolbora		69.8947
7	Spanish (es) Pólvora		64.7981
8	German (de) Schwarzpulver		62.8124
9	Russian (ru) Дымный порох		62.0432
10	Catalan (ca) Pólvora		55.8641

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gunpowder		12 327 729
2	Spanish (es) Pólvora		4 160 569
3	German (de) Schwarzpulver		2 430 652
4	French (fr) Poudre noire		1 435 356
5	Portuguese (pt) Pólvora		1 279 937
6	Japanese (ja) 黒色火薬		1 070 812
7	Russian (ru) Дымный порох		953 015
8	Polish (pl) Proch czarny		817 817
9	Dutch (nl) Buskruit		642 282
10	Arabic (ar) بارود		478 141

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) Gunpowder		48 845
2	Spanish (es) Pólvora		8 554
3	German (de) Schwarzpulver		5 759
4	French (fr) Poudre noire		5 719
5	Russian (ru) Дымный порох		5 189
6	Japanese (ja) 黒色火薬		4 313
7	Portuguese (pt) Pólvora		3 588
8	Chinese (zh) 黑火药		2 275
9	Polish (pl) Proch czarny		2 090
10	Arabic (ar) بارود		1 692

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gunpowder		1 342
2	German (de) Schwarzpulver		354
3	Spanish (es) Pólvora		203
4	French (fr) Poudre noire		189
5	Dutch (nl) Buskruit		132
6	Portuguese (pt) Pólvora		88
7	Hebrew (he) אבק שרפה		73
8	Polish (pl) Proch czarny		62
9	Hungarian (hu) Lőpor		56
10	Norwegian (no) Krutt		54

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) Gunpowder		7
2	German (de) Schwarzpulver		6
3	Japanese (ja) 黒色火薬		2
4	Slovenian (sl) Smodnik		2
5	French (fr) Poudre noire		1
6	Norwegian (no) Krutt		1
7	Russian (ru) Дымный порох		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Димний порох		1
9	Arabic (ar) بارود		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Barıt		0

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

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