Improvised firearm

Quality:

Improvised firearm - makeshift ranged weapon. Article “Improvised firearm” in English Wikipedia has 81.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.3 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 “Improvised firearm” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Improvised firearm”, its content was written by 188 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 353 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 359 times in English Wikipedia and cited 662 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7119 in July 2022
• Global: #6484 in July 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6506 in July 2022
• Global: #7485 in July 2022

There are 11 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) Improvised firearm		81.6463
2	Chinese (zh) 簡易槍枝		73.8566
3	Italian (it) Arma da fuoco artigianale		69.9514
4	Portuguese (pt) Arma de fogo artesanal		52.4833
5	Japanese (ja) ジップ・ガン		23.6885
6	Hebrew (he) נשק מאולתר		23.5844
7	Russian (ru) Самодельное огнестрельное оружие		22.7494
8	Ukrainian (uk) Саморобна вогнепальна зброя		22.1178
9	Swedish (sv) Improviserat skjutvapen		12.5525
10	Korean (ko) 사제총		10.4538

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Improvised firearm		2 793 097
2	Russian (ru) Самодельное огнестрельное оружие		497 406
3	Japanese (ja) ジップ・ガン		246 914
4	Portuguese (pt) Arma de fogo artesanal		209 808
5	Chinese (zh) 簡易槍枝		86 223
6	Ukrainian (uk) Саморобна вогнепальна зброя		31 052
7	Korean (ko) 사제총		25 047
8	Norwegian (no) Improvisert skytevåpen		22 714
9	Hebrew (he) נשק מאולתר		14 606
10	Italian (it) Arma da fuoco artigianale		7 535

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) Improvised firearm		12 944
2	Russian (ru) Самодельное огнестрельное оружие		2 656
3	Japanese (ja) ジップ・ガン		2 041
4	Portuguese (pt) Arma de fogo artesanal		858
5	Chinese (zh) 簡易槍枝		800
6	Italian (it) Arma da fuoco artigianale		278
7	Ukrainian (uk) Саморобна вогнепальна зброя		96
8	Korean (ko) 사제총		68
9	Hebrew (he) נשק מאולתר		50
10	Swedish (sv) Improviserat skjutvapen		15

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Improvised firearm		188
2	Russian (ru) Самодельное огнестрельное оружие		47
3	Japanese (ja) ジップ・ガン		34
4	Ukrainian (uk) Саморобна вогнепальна зброя		22
5	Portuguese (pt) Arma de fogo artesanal		15
6	Korean (ko) 사제총		12
7	Chinese (zh) 簡易槍枝		12
8	Italian (it) Arma da fuoco artigianale		8
9	Norwegian (no) Improvisert skytevåpen		6
10	Hebrew (he) נשק מאולתר		5

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	Japanese (ja) ジップ・ガン		3
2	English (en) Improvised firearm		2
3	Italian (it) Arma da fuoco artigianale		1
4	Chinese (zh) 簡易槍枝		1
5	Hebrew (he) נשק מאולתר		0
6	Korean (ko) 사제총		0
7	Norwegian (no) Improvisert skytevåpen		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Arma de fogo artesanal		0
9	Russian (ru) Самодельное огнестрельное оружие		0
10	Swedish (sv) Improviserat skjutvapen		0

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

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