Rifling

Rifling - helical groovings in the internal (bore) surface of a firearm barrel. Article “Rifling” in English Wikipedia has 60.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 10 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.

Since the creation of article “Rifling”, its content was written by 263 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 797 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1166 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5859 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4096 in September 2002
• Global: #5992 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36846 in December 2012
• Global: #34458 in November 2012

There are 26 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) Rifling		60.9458
2	Vietnamese (vi) Khương tuyến		47.8606
3	Simple English (simple) Rifling		46.3457
4	French (fr) Canon rayé		36.7825
5	Chinese (zh) 膛線		35.1825
6	Turkish (tr) Yiv		31.5187
7	Portuguese (pt) Estriamento		31.1767
8	Catalan (ca) Ànima estriada		27.5142
9	Ukrainian (uk) Нарізна зброя		27.0038
10	Polish (pl) Lufa gwintowana		26.5457

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rifling		3 684 044
2	Japanese (ja) ライフリング		950 918
3	German (de) Zug (Waffe)		814 643
4	Russian (ru) Нарезное оружие		791 302
5	Chinese (zh) 膛線		418 323
6	Spanish (es) Ánima rayada		281 830
7	French (fr) Canon rayé		271 748
8	Polish (pl) Lufa gwintowana		260 359
9	Turkish (tr) Yiv		231 873
10	Italian (it) Rigatura		160 486

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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 "Rifling" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rifling		12 324
2	Japanese (ja) ライフリング		2 115
3	German (de) Zug (Waffe)		1 791
4	Russian (ru) Нарезное оружие		1 465
5	Chinese (zh) 膛線		1 191
6	Persian (fa) خان (اسلحه)		1 035
7	French (fr) Canon rayé		636
8	Polish (pl) Lufa gwintowana		438
9	Spanish (es) Ánima rayada		429
10	Italian (it) Rigatura		410

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rifling		263
2	German (de) Zug (Waffe)		75
3	Japanese (ja) ライフリング		55
4	French (fr) Canon rayé		53
5	Italian (it) Rigatura		46
6	Russian (ru) Нарезное оружие		42
7	Turkish (tr) Yiv		39
8	Polish (pl) Lufa gwintowana		37
9	Chinese (zh) 膛線		32
10	Finnish (fi) Rihla		27

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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 "Rifling" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Estriamento		2
2	Basque (eu) Arima ildaskatu		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Khương tuyến		1
4	Arabic (ar) حلزنة		0
5	Belarusian (be) Наразная зброя		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Нарезно оръжие		0
7	Catalan (ca) Ànima estriada		0
8	Czech (cs) Vývrt hlavně		0
9	German (de) Zug (Waffe)		0
10	English (en) Rifling		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 "Rifling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Zug (Waffe)		1 368
2	English (en) Rifling		1 166
3	Chinese (zh) 膛線		896
4	Russian (ru) Нарезное оружие		436
5	Italian (it) Rigatura		315
6	Japanese (ja) ライフリング		297
7	Ukrainian (uk) Нарізна зброя		215
8	French (fr) Canon rayé		167
9	Portuguese (pt) Estriamento		144
10	Polish (pl) Lufa gwintowana		143

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حلزنة
be	Belarusian Наразная зброя
bg	Bulgarian Нарезно оръжие
ca	Catalan Ànima estriada
cs	Czech Vývrt hlavně
de	German Zug (Waffe)
en	English Rifling
es	Spanish Ánima rayada
eu	Basque Arima ildaskatu
fa	Persian خان (اسلحه)
fi	Finnish Rihla
fr	French Canon rayé
id	Indonesian Ulir
it	Italian Rigatura
ja	Japanese ライフリング
ko	Korean 강선
pl	Polish Lufa gwintowana
pt	Portuguese Estriamento
ru	Russian Нарезное оружие
simple	Simple English Rifling
sr	Serbian Изолучено оружје
sv	Swedish Räffling
tr	Turkish Yiv
uk	Ukrainian Нарізна зброя
vi	Vietnamese Khương tuyến
zh	Chinese 膛線

Best Rank

English: #36846 12.2012

Global: #34458 11.2012

Best Rank

English: #4096 09.2002

Global: #5992 09.2002

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