Touch hole

Touch hole - small hole near the rear portion (breech) of a cannon or muzzleloading gun. Article “Touch hole” in English Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Touch hole” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Touch hole”, its content was written by 52 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 131 times in English Wikipedia and cited 279 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #63746 in June 2005
• Global: #71621 in June 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #70768 in November 2021
• Global: #137093 in November 2021

There are 15 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	German (de) Zündloch		34.3302
2	Ukrainian (uk) Запалювальний отвір		33.9603
3	Tamil (ta) தொடு துளை		26.1819
4	Czech (cs) Zátravka		21.3993
5	Portuguese (pt) Ouvido (artilharia)		20.4878
6	Serbian (sr) Фаља		18.8663
7	English (en) Touch hole		18.8558
8	Catalan (ca) Oïda (armes)		18.6266
9	French (fr) Lumière (armurerie)		18.0225
10	Norwegian (no) Fenghull		17.9653

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Touch hole		472 514
2	Polish (pl) Zapał		44 686
3	Japanese (ja) タッチホール式		42 884
4	German (de) Zündloch		31 332
5	Chinese (zh) 点火孔		5 967
6	Swedish (sv) Fänghål		4 471
7	Norwegian (no) Fenghull		4 460
8	Portuguese (pt) Ouvido (artilharia)		4 088
9	Czech (cs) Zátravka		3 658
10	Italian (it) Foro focone		1 628

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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 "Touch hole" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Touch hole		2 909
2	Japanese (ja) タッチホール式		146
3	German (de) Zündloch		101
4	Polish (pl) Zapał		72
5	Chinese (zh) 点火孔		54
6	French (fr) Lumière (armurerie)		38
7	Czech (cs) Zátravka		30
8	Italian (it) Foro focone		28
9	Catalan (ca) Oïda (armes)		26
10	Serbian (sr) Фаља		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Touch hole		52
2	German (de) Zündloch		30
3	Norwegian (no) Fenghull		11
4	Polish (pl) Zapał		10
5	Chinese (zh) 点火孔		7
6	Japanese (ja) タッチホール式		5
7	Portuguese (pt) Ouvido (artilharia)		5
8	Italian (it) Foro focone		4
9	Serbian (sr) Фаља		3
10	Swedish (sv) Fänghål		3

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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 "Touch hole" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Touch hole		1
2	Italian (it) Foro focone		1
3	Catalan (ca) Oïda (armes)		0
4	Czech (cs) Zátravka		0
5	German (de) Zündloch		0
6	French (fr) Lumière (armurerie)		0
7	Japanese (ja) タッチホール式		0
8	Norwegian (no) Fenghull		0
9	Polish (pl) Zapał		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Ouvido (artilharia)		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 "Touch hole" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Touch hole		131
2	German (de) Zündloch		33
3	Ukrainian (uk) Запалювальний отвір		26
4	Polish (pl) Zapał		18
5	Tamil (ta) தொடு துளை		16
6	Swedish (sv) Fänghål		11
7	Japanese (ja) タッチホール式		8
8	Norwegian (no) Fenghull		7
9	Serbian (sr) Фаља		7
10	Chinese (zh) 点火孔		7

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Oïda (armes)
cs	Czech Zátravka
de	German Zündloch
en	English Touch hole
fr	French Lumière (armurerie)
it	Italian Foro focone
ja	Japanese タッチホール式
no	Norwegian Fenghull
pl	Polish Zapał
pt	Portuguese Ouvido (artilharia)
sr	Serbian Фаља
sv	Swedish Fänghål
ta	Tamil தொடு துளை
uk	Ukrainian Запалювальний отвір
zh	Chinese 点火孔

Best Rank

English: #70768 11.2021

Global: #137093 11.2021

Best Rank

English: #63746 06.2005

Global: #71621 06.2018

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