Powder Alarm

Powder Alarm - major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774. Article “Powder Alarm” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 6.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Powder Alarm”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 456 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #6691 in December 2014
• Global: #94208 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #73624 in January 2008
• Global: #166348 in September 2017

There are 10 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) Powder Alarm		59.1015
2	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		35.1866
3	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		34.0543
4	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		27.1373
5	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		17.1799
6	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		12.5631
7	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		10.4449
8	French (fr) Powder Alarm		9.6916
9	German (de) Powder-Alarm		7.5369
10	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		6.1243

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Powder Alarm		369 028
2	German (de) Powder-Alarm		30 833
3	French (fr) Powder Alarm		16 811
4	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		9 355
5	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		8 395
6	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		4 816
7	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		2 001
8	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		1 792
9	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		1 586
10	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		771

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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 "Powder Alarm" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Powder Alarm		2 174
2	French (fr) Powder Alarm		65
3	German (de) Powder-Alarm		63
4	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		55
5	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		18
6	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		16
7	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		15
8	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		9
9	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		6
10	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Powder Alarm		82
2	French (fr) Powder Alarm		30
3	German (de) Powder-Alarm		28
4	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		18
5	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		15
6	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		8
7	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		3
8	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		3
9	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		1
10	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		1

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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 "Powder Alarm" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Powder-Alarm		0
2	English (en) Powder Alarm		0
3	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		0
4	French (fr) Powder Alarm		0
5	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		0
6	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		0
7	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		0
8	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		0
9	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		0
10	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		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 "Powder Alarm" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Powder Alarm		263
2	French (fr) Powder Alarm		77
3	Norwegian (no) Powder Alarm		37
4	Swedish (sv) Krutalarmet		25
5	Chinese (zh) 火藥危機		20
6	German (de) Powder-Alarm		9
7	Japanese (ja) 火薬警鐘		9
8	Hebrew (he) אזעקת אבק השרפה		7
9	Indonesian (id) Powder Alarm		6
10	Spanish (es) Alarma de Pólvora		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Powder-Alarm
en	English Powder Alarm
es	Spanish Alarma de Pólvora
fr	French Powder Alarm
he	Hebrew אזעקת אבק השרפה
id	Indonesian Powder Alarm
ja	Japanese 火薬警鐘
no	Norwegian Powder Alarm
sv	Swedish Krutalarmet
zh	Chinese 火藥危機

Best Rank

Norwegian: #73624 01.2008

Global: #166348 09.2017

Best Rank

Norwegian: #6691 12.2014

Global: #94208 05.2005

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