Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - phrase coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. Article "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" in English Wikipedia has 18.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun", its content was written by 37 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 80 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 105 times in English Wikipedia and cited 447 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73078 in October 2023
• Global: #86236 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #182861 in June 2022
• Global: #268348 in June 2022

There are 8 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		20.2736
2	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		18.8699
3	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		18.5541
4	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		15.3863
5	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		13.997
6	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		12.0893
7	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		11.7556
8	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		1.6933

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		389 922
2	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		152 175
3	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		3 911
4	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		1 929
5	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		1 341
6	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		769
7	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		479
8	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		35

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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 "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		3 697
2	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		990
3	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		284
4	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		182
5	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		73
6	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		63
7	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		13
8	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		1

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

Language versions of the article "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		37
2	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		29
3	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		4
4	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		3
5	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		2
6	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		2
7	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		2
8	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		1

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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 "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		0
3	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		0
4	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		0
5	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		0
7	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		0
8	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		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 "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 枪杆子里面出政权		207
2	English (en) Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun		105
3	Portuguese (pt) Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma		104
4	Japanese (ja) 政権は銃口から生まれる		24
5	Esperanto (eo) Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila		2
6	Spanish (es) El poder político surge del cañón de un arma		2
7	Indonesian (id) Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata		2
8	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
eo	Esperanto Povo politika kreskas el tubo pafila
es	Spanish El poder político surge del cañón de un arma
id	Indonesian Kekuatan politik tumbuh dari laras senjata
ja	Japanese 政権は銃口から生まれる
pt	Portuguese Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma
vi	Vietnamese Quyền lực chính trị phát ra từ nòng súng
zh	Chinese 枪杆子里面出政权

Best Rank

English: #182861 06.2022

Global: #268348 06.2022

Best Rank

English: #73078 10.2023

Global: #86236 09.2004

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