Chain gun

Chain gun - firearm mechanism that uses an external source of power to cycle the firearm. Article “Chain gun” in Italian Wikipedia has 12.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Italian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Chain gun”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 429 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #20813 in February 2011
• Global: #69439 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #142504 in January 2023
• Global: #36818 in February 2008

There are 13 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) Chain gun		31.8137
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		28.1591
3	Malay (ms) Meriam berantai		26.3908
4	Slovenian (sl) Verižni top		21.3835
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan rantai		19.6275
6	French (fr) Chain gun		18.9378
7	Chinese (zh) 鏈炮		17.6828
8	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		13.9599
9	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		12.6384
10	Italian (it) Chain gun		12.3002

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chain gun		1 876 027
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		681 340
3	German (de) Chain Gun		255 038
4	French (fr) Chain gun		57 692
5	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		48 105
6	Italian (it) Chain gun		31 298
7	Chinese (zh) 鏈炮		8 571
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ланцюгова гармата		4 693
9	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		2 129
10	Norwegian (no) Kjedemekanisme		1 756

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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 "Chain gun" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chain gun		6 947
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		1 324
3	German (de) Chain Gun		404
4	French (fr) Chain gun		297
5	Chinese (zh) 鏈炮		256
6	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		178
7	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		144
8	Italian (it) Chain gun		126
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ланцюгова гармата		35
10	Indonesian (id) Senapan rantai		7

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

Language versions of the article "Chain 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) Chain gun		122
2	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		30
3	German (de) Chain Gun		29
4	French (fr) Chain gun		17
5	Italian (it) Chain gun		16
6	Norwegian (no) Kjedemekanisme		10
7	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		7
8	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		4
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ланцюгова гармата		4
10	Chinese (zh) 鏈炮		4

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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 "Chain gun" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Chain Gun		0
2	English (en) Chain gun		0
3	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		0
4	French (fr) Chain gun		0
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan rantai		0
6	Italian (it) Chain gun		0
7	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		0
8	Malay (ms) Meriam berantai		0
9	Norwegian (no) Kjedemekanisme		0
10	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		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 "Chain gun" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) チェーンガン		148
2	English (en) Chain gun		110
3	French (fr) Chain gun		51
4	Spanish (es) Cañón de cadena		22
5	Chinese (zh) 鏈炮		22
6	Italian (it) Chain gun		21
7	German (de) Chain Gun		19
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ланцюгова гармата		17
9	Slovenian (sl) Verižni top		7
10	Russian (ru) Цепная пушка		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German Chain Gun
en	English Chain gun
es	Spanish Cañón de cadena
fr	French Chain gun
id	Indonesian Senapan rantai
it	Italian Chain gun
ja	Japanese チェーンガン
ms	Malay Meriam berantai
no	Norwegian Kjedemekanisme
ru	Russian Цепная пушка
sl	Slovenian Verižni top
uk	Ukrainian Ланцюгова гармата
zh	Chinese 鏈炮

Best Rank

Italian: #142504 01.2023

Global: #36818 02.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #20813 02.2011

Global: #69439 09.2010

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