Sword hunt

Sword hunt - the seizure of swords and a variety of other weapons from civilians in Japanese history. Article “Sword hunt” in English Wikipedia has 17.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.91 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Sword hunt”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 543 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49263 in February 2021
• Global: #16448 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #257120 in July 2021
• Global: #149554 in July 2008

There are 10 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	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		36.01
2	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		26.5749
3	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		24.6713
4	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		24.5753
5	English (en) Sword hunt		17.3555
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		9.6994
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		8.2142
8	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		6.1938
9	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		3.52
10	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		2.9397

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		875 155
2	English (en) Sword hunt		299 098
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		102 450
4	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		39 793
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		18 542
6	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		6 614
7	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		4 318
8	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		3 033
9	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		1 171
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		122

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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 "Sword hunt" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sword hunt		1 963
2	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		1 728
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		601
4	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		311
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		92
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		37
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		22
8	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		15
9	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		8
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		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 "Sword hunt" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		78
2	English (en) Sword hunt		43
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		16
4	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		13
5	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		9
6	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		6
7	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		5
8	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		3
9	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		2
10	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		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 "Sword hunt" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sword hunt		0
2	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		0
3	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		0
4	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		0
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		0
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		0
7	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		0
8	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		0
10	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		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 "Sword hunt" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		203
2	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		109
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		105
4	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		69
5	English (en) Sword hunt		29
6	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		11
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		7
8	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		6
9	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		3
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Sword hunt
fa	Persian شکار شمشیر
fr	French Chasse aux épées
ja	Japanese 刀狩
ko	Korean 칼사냥
pl	Polish Polowanie na miecze
ru	Russian Охота за мечами
sr	Serbian Лов на мачеве
uk	Ukrainian Полювання за мечами
zh	Chinese 刀狩令

Best Rank

English: #257120 07.2021

Global: #149554 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #49263 02.2021

Global: #16448 10.2003

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