Railgun

Quality:

Railgun - electrically powered electromagnetic projectile launcher. Article “Railgun” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 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 “Railgun”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1671 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1753 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #9152 in July 2024
• Global: #1436 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #2748 in May 2014
• Global: #2138 in February 2008

There are 28 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) Railgun		91.9152
2	German (de) Railgun		48.8565
3	Swedish (sv) Magnetkanon		45.9164
4	Ukrainian (uk) Рейкотрон		44.1658
5	Catalan (ca) Canó electromagnètic		42.6903
6	Japanese (ja) レールガン		38.8165
7	Russian (ru) Рельсотрон		37.8331
8	Spanish (es) Cañón de riel		37.4131
9	Hebrew (he) תותח מסילה		33.6941
10	Turkish (tr) Elektromanyetik top		31.2883

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railgun		12 788 798
2	Japanese (ja) レールガン		3 982 541
3	German (de) Railgun		1 836 827
4	Russian (ru) Рельсотрон		1 585 968
5	Chinese (zh) 磁軌砲		699 475
6	Spanish (es) Cañón de riel		547 088
7	French (fr) Canon électrique		457 931
8	Polish (pl) Działo szynowe		346 744
9	Italian (it) Cannone a rotaia		244 629
10	Dutch (nl) Railgun		123 886

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railgun		28 072
2	Japanese (ja) レールガン		9 020
3	German (de) Railgun		4 228
4	Russian (ru) Рельсотрон		3 969
5	Chinese (zh) 磁軌砲		1 742
6	Spanish (es) Cañón de riel		1 173
7	French (fr) Canon électrique		966
8	Italian (it) Cannone a rotaia		678
9	Simple English (simple) Railgun		490
10	Polish (pl) Działo szynowe		469

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railgun		695
2	German (de) Railgun		202
3	French (fr) Canon électrique		130
4	Russian (ru) Рельсотрон		129
5	Japanese (ja) レールガン		112
6	Chinese (zh) 磁軌砲		71
7	Spanish (es) Cañón de riel		54
8	Italian (it) Cannone a rotaia		35
9	Polish (pl) Działo szynowe		32
10	Korean (ko) 레일건		29

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railgun		2
2	Japanese (ja) レールガン		2
3	German (de) Railgun		1
4	French (fr) Canon électrique		1
5	Arabic (ar) مدفع ذو قضبان		0
6	Catalan (ca) Canó electromagnètic		0
7	Czech (cs) Elektromagnetické dělo		0
8	Danish (da) Railgun		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Elektromagneta kanono		0
10	Spanish (es) Cañón de riel		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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