Tombak api

Fire lance - 10th Century firearm of Chinese origin. Article “Tombak api” in Malay Wikipedia has 48.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 6 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 “Tombak api”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 725 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #6294 in May 2020
• Global: #34467 in December 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #45043 in September 2025
• Global: #74930 in October 2012

There are 20 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) Fire lance		60.9598
2	Hungarian (hu) Tűzlándzsa		49.5729
3	Indonesian (id) Tombak api		48.5151
4	Malay (ms) Tombak api		48.4515
5	Chinese (zh) 火枪		43.4252
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hỏa thương		43.1701
7	Spanish (es) Lanza de fuego		42.6944
8	Catalan (ca) Llança de foc		39.4166
9	Polish (pl) Lanca ognista		30.4014
10	Russian (ru) Огненное копьё		26.9665

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fire lance		1 464 877
2	Japanese (ja) 火槍		283 150
3	Chinese (zh) 火枪		189 925
4	Russian (ru) Огненное копьё		145 044
5	Polish (pl) Lanca ognista		68 608
6	German (de) Sturmspieß		37 331
7	Spanish (es) Lanza de fuego		23 409
8	Italian (it) Lancia da fuoco		20 613
9	Hebrew (he) רומח אש		20 440
10	French (fr) Lance de feu		18 517

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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 "Tombak api" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fire lance		7 291
2	Japanese (ja) 火槍		795
3	Chinese (zh) 火枪		599
4	Russian (ru) Огненное копьё		445
5	Spanish (es) Lanza de fuego		162
6	German (de) Sturmspieß		140
7	Polish (pl) Lanca ognista		128
8	French (fr) Lance de feu		90
9	Portuguese (pt) Lança de fogo		81
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hỏa thương		76

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fire lance		82
2	Japanese (ja) 火槍		21
3	Hebrew (he) רומח אש		20
4	Russian (ru) Огненное копьё		19
5	German (de) Sturmspieß		16
6	French (fr) Lance de feu		13
7	Italian (it) Lancia da fuoco		13
8	Hungarian (hu) Tűzlándzsa		12
9	Polish (pl) Lanca ognista		10
10	Catalan (ca) Llança de foc		8

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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 "Tombak api" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fire lance		2
2	Catalan (ca) Llança de foc		0
3	German (de) Sturmspieß		0
4	Spanish (es) Lanza de fuego		0
5	Basque (eu) Suzko lantza		0
6	French (fr) Lance de feu		0
7	Hebrew (he) רומח אש		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Tűzlándzsa		0
9	Indonesian (id) Tombak api		0
10	Italian (it) Lancia da fuoco		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 "Tombak api" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Fire lance		260
2	Chinese (zh) 火枪		157
3	Korean (ko) 화창		65
4	Serbian (sr) Ватрено копље		65
5	Japanese (ja) 火槍		29
6	Russian (ru) Огненное копьё		26
7	Vietnamese (vi) Hỏa thương		20
8	Italian (it) Lancia da fuoco		16
9	Portuguese (pt) Lança de fogo		16
10	Catalan (ca) Llança de foc		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Llança de foc
de	German Sturmspieß
en	English Fire lance
es	Spanish Lanza de fuego
eu	Basque Suzko lantza
fr	French Lance de feu
he	Hebrew רומח אש
hu	Hungarian Tűzlándzsa
id	Indonesian Tombak api
it	Italian Lancia da fuoco
ja	Japanese 火槍
ko	Korean 화창
ms	Malay Tombak api
pl	Polish Lanca ognista
pt	Portuguese Lança de fogo
ru	Russian Огненное копьё
sr	Serbian Ватрено копље
uk	Ukrainian Вогневий спис
vi	Vietnamese Hỏa thương
zh	Chinese 火枪

Best Rank

Malay: #45043 09.2025

Global: #74930 10.2012

Best Rank

Malay: #6294 05.2020

Global: #34467 12.2019

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