Riot shotgun

Riot shotgun - shotgun designed or modified for use as a primarily defensive weapon, by the use of a short barrel and sometimes a larger magazine capacity than shotguns marketed for hunting. Article “Riot shotgun” in English Wikipedia has 51.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 7 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 “Riot shotgun”, its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 80 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 260 times in English Wikipedia and cited 299 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #63759 in December 2008
• Global: #144860 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #65811 in March 2008
• Global: #107260 in March 2008

There are 6 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) Riot shotgun		51.2085
2	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		40.5067
3	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		32.5339
4	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		31.9771
5	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		28.7585
6	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		26.0119

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Riot shotgun		1 183 398
2	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		18 903
3	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		17 933
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		1 415
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		323
6	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		149

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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 "Riot shotgun" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Riot shotgun		3 781
2	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		158
3	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		62
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		40
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		17
6	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		4

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Riot shotgun		62
2	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		6
3	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		5
4	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		3
5	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		2
6	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		2

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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 "Riot shotgun" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Riot shotgun		0
2	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		0
3	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		0
4	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		0
5	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		0
6	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		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 "Riot shotgun" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Riot shotgun		260
2	Chinese (zh) 鎮暴霰彈槍		30
3	Indonesian (id) Senapan huru-hara		4
4	Spanish (es) Escopeta antidisturbios		2
5	Basque (eu) Istiluen aurkako eskopeta		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Дробовик спеціального призначення		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Riot shotgun
es	Spanish Escopeta antidisturbios
eu	Basque Istiluen aurkako eskopeta
id	Indonesian Senapan huru-hara
uk	Ukrainian Дробовик спеціального призначення
zh	Chinese 鎮暴霰彈槍

Best Rank

English: #65811 03.2008

Global: #107260 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #63759 12.2008

Global: #144860 01.2005

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