PDW

Personal defense weapon - compact magazine-fed, self-loading, firearm; hybrid between a submachine gun and a carbine. Article “PDW” in Japanese Wikipedia has 7.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.39 points.

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

Since the creation of article “PDW”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 537 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 287 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 2025 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #6014 in February 2006
• Global: #25537 in November 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #11644 in October 2010
• Global: #46679 in December 2012

There are 24 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) Personal defense weapon		60.3921
2	Chinese (zh) 個人防衛武器		45.1309
3	Vietnamese (vi) Vũ khí tự vệ cá nhân		41.8564
4	Simple English (simple) Personal defense weapon		37.9035
5	Ukrainian (uk) Особиста зброя самооборони		28.0258
6	Portuguese (pt) PDW		26.7941
7	German (de) Personal Defence Weapon		26.5514
8	Norwegian (no) Personlig selvforsvarsvåpen		22.5752
9	Russian (ru) Персональное оружие самообороны		21.2908
10	Turkish (tr) Kişisel savunma silahı		17.5237

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Personal defense weapon		3 434 194
2	Japanese (ja) PDW		1 159 335
3	German (de) Personal Defence Weapon		262 390
4	Russian (ru) Персональное оружие самообороны		261 475
5	Chinese (zh) 個人防衛武器		214 308
6	French (fr) Personal defense weapon		111 241
7	Polish (pl) PDW		82 174
8	Czech (cs) Osobní obranná zbraň		65 444
9	Italian (it) Personal defense weapon		63 457
10	Portuguese (pt) PDW		42 786

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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 "PDW" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Personal defense weapon		7 992
2	Japanese (ja) PDW		2 034
3	Russian (ru) Персональное оружие самообороны		686
4	Chinese (zh) 個人防衛武器		546
5	German (de) Personal Defence Weapon		409
6	Polish (pl) PDW		384
7	French (fr) Personal defense weapon		330
8	Italian (it) Personal defense weapon		244
9	Spanish (es) Arma de defensa personal		143
10	Portuguese (pt) PDW		130

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Personal defense weapon		212
2	German (de) Personal Defence Weapon		68
3	Japanese (ja) PDW		45
4	French (fr) Personal defense weapon		35
5	Russian (ru) Персональное оружие самообороны		24
6	Italian (it) Personal defense weapon		20
7	Czech (cs) Osobní obranná zbraň		16
8	Chinese (zh) 個人防衛武器		15
9	Ukrainian (uk) Особиста зброя самооборони		14
10	Polish (pl) PDW		12

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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 "PDW" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Vũ khí tự vệ cá nhân		1
2	Czech (cs) Osobní obranná zbraň		0
3	Danish (da) Personal defense weapon		0
4	German (de) Personal Defence Weapon		0
5	English (en) Personal defense weapon		0
6	Spanish (es) Arma de defensa personal		0
7	Persian (fa) جنگ‌افزار دفاع شخصی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Henkilökohtainen suoja-ase		0
9	French (fr) Personal defense weapon		0
10	Indonesian (id) Senjata bela diri perorangan		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 "PDW" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Personal defense weapon		712
2	Chinese (zh) 個人防衛武器		342
3	Japanese (ja) PDW		287
4	Ukrainian (uk) Особиста зброя самооборони		149
5	Polish (pl) PDW		84
6	Russian (ru) Персональное оружие самообороны		81
7	Portuguese (pt) PDW		75
8	French (fr) Personal defense weapon		43
9	Indonesian (id) Senjata bela diri perorangan		42
10	Italian (it) Personal defense weapon		41

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Osobní obranná zbraň
da	Danish Personal defense weapon
de	German Personal Defence Weapon
en	English Personal defense weapon
es	Spanish Arma de defensa personal
fa	Persian جنگ‌افزار دفاع شخصی
fi	Finnish Henkilökohtainen suoja-ase
fr	French Personal defense weapon
id	Indonesian Senjata bela diri perorangan
it	Italian Personal defense weapon
ja	Japanese PDW
ko	Korean 개인방어무기
no	Norwegian Personlig selvforsvarsvåpen
pl	Polish PDW
pt	Portuguese PDW
ru	Russian Персональное оружие самообороны
simple	Simple English Personal defense weapon
sk	Slovak Personal defense weapon
sl	Slovenian Osebno obrambno orožje
th	Thai อาวุธป้องกันประจำบุคคล
tr	Turkish Kişisel savunma silahı
uk	Ukrainian Особиста зброя самооборони
vi	Vietnamese Vũ khí tự vệ cá nhân
zh	Chinese 個人防衛武器

Best Rank

Japanese: #11644 10.2010

Global: #46679 12.2012

Best Rank

Japanese: #6014 02.2006

Global: #25537 11.2024

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