Meriam tangan

Hand cannon - earliest form of firearm used in 13th century China, 14th century Europe. Article “Meriam tangan” in Malay Wikipedia has 54.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Meriam tangan”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 521 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 1139 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #5164 in November 2022
• Global: #22295 in November 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #46185 in May 2025
• Global: #41240 in February 2025

There are 25 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) Hand cannon		82.5318
2	Catalan (ca) Canó de mà		71.1675
3	Indonesian (id) Meriam tangan		65.1716
4	Malay (ms) Meriam tangan		54.5774
5	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		42.2492
6	Russian (ru) Ручница		39.9448
7	Chinese (zh) 手铳		38.1895
8	French (fr) Canon à main		34.7407
9	Croatian (hr) Ručni top		31.2722
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ручниця		29.4755

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hand cannon		2 674 909
2	German (de) Handrohr		325 526
3	Polish (pl) Rusznica		288 440
4	Russian (ru) Ручница		137 947
5	Italian (it) Schioppo		132 008
6	Chinese (zh) 手铳		118 813
7	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		84 506
8	Czech (cs) Píšťala (zbraň)		61 399
9	Portuguese (pt) Canhão de mão		56 555
10	Swedish (sv) Hakebössa		50 852

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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 "Meriam tangan" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hand cannon		13 178
2	German (de) Handrohr		1 017
3	Russian (ru) Ручница		925
4	Polish (pl) Rusznica		842
5	Italian (it) Schioppo		605
6	Chinese (zh) 手铳		447
7	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		321
8	Czech (cs) Píšťala (zbraň)		247
9	French (fr) Canon à main		182
10	Portuguese (pt) Canhão de mão		181

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hand cannon		240
2	German (de) Handrohr		71
3	Italian (it) Schioppo		29
4	Polish (pl) Rusznica		25
5	Chinese (zh) 手铳		22
6	Swedish (sv) Hakebössa		16
7	Russian (ru) Ручница		15
8	Czech (cs) Píšťala (zbraň)		14
9	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		13
10	Portuguese (pt) Canhão de mão		13

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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 "Meriam tangan" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hand cannon		3
2	Catalan (ca) Canó de mà		1
3	Basque (eu) Esku-kanoi		1
4	Arabic (ar) مدفع يدوي		0
5	Belarusian (be) Ручніца		0
6	Czech (cs) Píšťala (zbraň)		0
7	Danish (da) Hagebøsse		0
8	German (de) Handrohr		0
9	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		0
10	Finnish (fi) Käsikanuuna		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 "Meriam tangan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hand cannon		322
2	Polish (pl) Rusznica		130
3	Chinese (zh) 手铳		123
4	Korean (ko) 핸드 캐넌		100
5	Serbian (sr) Ручни топ		67
6	German (de) Handrohr		65
7	Russian (ru) Ручница		47
8	Italian (it) Schioppo		34
9	Spanish (es) Cañón de mano		30
10	Indonesian (id) Meriam tangan		30

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مدفع يدوي
be	Belarusian Ручніца
ca	Catalan Canó de mà
cs	Czech Píšťala (zbraň)
da	Danish Hagebøsse
de	German Handrohr
en	English Hand cannon
es	Spanish Cañón de mano
eu	Basque Esku-kanoi
fi	Finnish Käsikanuuna
fr	French Canon à main
hr	Croatian Ručni top
id	Indonesian Meriam tangan
it	Italian Schioppo
ko	Korean 핸드 캐넌
lt	Lithuanian Ručnica
ms	Malay Meriam tangan
pl	Polish Rusznica
pt	Portuguese Canhão de mão
ru	Russian Ручница
sk	Slovak Píšťala (zbraň)
sr	Serbian Ручни топ
sv	Swedish Hakebössa
uk	Ukrainian Ручниця
zh	Chinese 手铳

Best Rank

Malay: #46185 05.2025

Global: #41240 02.2025

Best Rank

Malay: #5164 11.2022

Global: #22295 11.2022

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