Machine gun

Quality:

Machine gun - fully automatic mounted or portable firearm. Article “Machine gun” in English Wikipedia has 73.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 90 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.98 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7564^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Machine gun” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Machine gun”, its content was written by 789 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2945 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7564^th place).

The article is cited 6939 times in English Wikipedia (3162^nd place) and cited 50471 times in all languages (3240^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #786 in October 2001
• Global: #667 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6527 in February 2008
• Global: #4418 in February 2008

There are 53 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, 2026 (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) Machine gun		73.5737
2	Esperanto (eo) Maŝinpafilo		65.8265
3	Japanese (ja) 機関銃		65.7509
4	Galician (gl) Metralladora		59.2353
5	Catalan (ca) Metralladora		57.0231
6	French (fr) Mitrailleuse		56.472
7	Bulgarian (bg) Картечница		55.9279
8	German (de) Maschinengewehr		55.2437
9	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy		54.8187
10	Chinese (zh) 机枪		53.68

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Machine gun		8 112 969
2	German (de) Maschinengewehr		2 404 171
3	Japanese (ja) 機関銃		2 035 453
4	Russian (ru) Пулемёт		1 375 330
5	Spanish (es) Ametralladora		1 291 528
6	French (fr) Mitrailleuse		1 155 979
7	Portuguese (pt) Metralhadora		1 107 083
8	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy		698 599
9	Italian (it) Mitragliatrice		676 012
10	Chinese (zh) 机枪		510 525

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) Machine gun		14 496
2	Japanese (ja) 機関銃		4 307
3	German (de) Maschinengewehr		3 764
4	Russian (ru) Пулемёт		2 491
5	French (fr) Mitrailleuse		1 801
6	Persian (fa) مسلسل		1 680
7	Spanish (es) Ametralladora		1 251
8	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy		1 110
9	Italian (it) Mitragliatrice		1 023
10	Chinese (zh) 机枪		1 000

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Machine gun		789
2	German (de) Maschinengewehr		232
3	French (fr) Mitrailleuse		182
4	Russian (ru) Пулемёт		145
5	Dutch (nl) Machinegeweer		113
6	Italian (it) Mitragliatrice		105
7	Japanese (ja) 機関銃		101
8	Spanish (es) Ametralladora		86
9	Hebrew (he) מקלע		83
10	Chinese (zh) 机枪		75

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	Dutch (nl) Machinegeweer		2
2	Catalan (ca) Metralladora		1
3	Czech (cs) Kulomet		1
4	English (en) Machine gun		1
5	Basque (eu) Metrailadore		1
6	Japanese (ja) 機関銃		1
7	Tamil (ta) இயந்திரத் துப்பாக்கி		1
8	Arabic (ar) رشاش (سلاح)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Pulemyot		0
10	Belarusian (be) Кулямёт		0

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

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