Air gun

Quality:

Air gun - gun that uses compressed air to launch projectiles. Article “Air gun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Air gun”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1581 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2671 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #116 in September 2006
• Global: #2077 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2968 in May 2020
• Global: #10340 in August 2008

There are 31 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) Air gun		69.6584
2	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		62.6748
3	German (de) Luftgewehr		46.0403
4	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		45.5371
5	Croatian (hr) Zračna puška		40.2705
6	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		36.6505
7	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		29.2726
8	Catalan (ca) Arma d'aire-gas		28.8165
9	Swedish (sv) Luftvapen (skjutvapen)		25.059
10	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		22.7374

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Air gun		7 152 245
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		1 867 054
3	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		1 360 444
4	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		679 403
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan angin		500 139
6	Dutch (nl) Luchtgeweer		385 177
7	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		376 543
8	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		295 375
9	Arabic (ar) بندقية ضغط الهواء		249 055
10	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		190 523

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) Air gun		15 099
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		2 426
3	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		1 881
4	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		1 255
5	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		1 096
6	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		504
7	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		474
8	Dutch (nl) Luchtgeweer		379
9	Indonesian (id) Senapan angin		288
10	Hebrew (he) רובה אוויר		215

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Air gun		596
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		181
3	Dutch (nl) Luchtgeweer		95
4	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		73
5	Hebrew (he) רובה אוויר		72
6	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		55
7	Swedish (sv) Luftvapen (skjutvapen)		49
8	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		47
9	Danish (da) Luftriffel		41
10	Indonesian (id) Senapan angin		41

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	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		2
2	Bulgarian (bg) Въздушна пушка		1
3	English (en) Air gun		1
4	Croatian (hr) Zračna puška		1
5	Arabic (ar) بندقية ضغط الهواء		0
6	Catalan (ca) Arma d'aire-gas		0
7	Czech (cs) Vzduchová pistole		0
8	Danish (da) Luftriffel		0
9	German (de) Luftgewehr		0
10	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		0

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

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