Molotov cocktail

Quality:

Molotov cocktail - incendiary weapon using flammable liquid in a bottle. Article “Molotov cocktail” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1651^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6956^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9027^th most popular in all topics.

The 7420^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1947^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6460^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Molotov cocktail”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6956^th place) and edited by 2929 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7420^th place).

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6383 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #148 in February 2021
• Global: #615 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #62 in February 2022
• Global: #112 in February 2022

There are 50 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) Molotov cocktail		93.8691
2	Swedish (sv) Molotovcocktail		85.5683
3	Uzbek (uz) Molotov kokteyli		82.9848
4	Persian (fa) کوکتل مولوتف		71.9648
5	Ukrainian (uk) Коктейль Молотова		56.8601
6	Basque (eu) Molotov koktel		56.3017
7	Catalan (ca) Còctel molotov		54.9313
8	Italian (it) Bomba Molotov		45.9645
9	Spanish (es) Cóctel molotov		45.4003
10	Russian (ru) Коктейль Молотова		43.7821

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Molotov cocktail		10 945 350
2	Russian (ru) Коктейль Молотова		3 782 943
3	German (de) Molotowcocktail		1 888 715
4	French (fr) Cocktail Molotov		1 283 899
5	Japanese (ja) 火炎瓶		1 268 067
6	Spanish (es) Cóctel molotov		1 092 453
7	Italian (it) Bomba Molotov		971 766
8	Portuguese (pt) Coquetel molotov		956 810
9	Polish (pl) Butelka zapalająca		944 116
10	Persian (fa) کوکتل مولوتف		696 612

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) Molotov cocktail		97 009
2	Russian (ru) Коктейль Молотова		10 652
3	Spanish (es) Cóctel molotov		6 579
4	German (de) Molotowcocktail		5 213
5	French (fr) Cocktail Molotov		4 357
6	Japanese (ja) 火炎瓶		3 814
7	Italian (it) Bomba Molotov		2 688
8	Chinese (zh) 燃烧瓶		2 614
9	Portuguese (pt) Coquetel molotov		2 177
10	Simple English (simple) Molotov cocktail		2 014

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Molotov cocktail		845
2	German (de) Molotowcocktail		209
3	French (fr) Cocktail Molotov		173
4	Italian (it) Bomba Molotov		141
5	Japanese (ja) 火炎瓶		116
6	Spanish (es) Cóctel molotov		105
7	Hebrew (he) בקבוק תבערה		83
8	Dutch (nl) Molotovcocktail		79
9	Russian (ru) Коктейль Молотова		78
10	Chinese (zh) 燃烧瓶		72

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) Molotov cocktail		9
2	Russian (ru) Коктейль Молотова		3
3	Catalan (ca) Còctel molotov		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Коктейль Молотова		2
5	Esperanto (eo) Brulbotelo		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Coquetel molotov		1
7	Arabic (ar) مولوتوف (سلاح)		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Molotov kokteyli		0
9	Belarusian (be) Кактэйль Молатава		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Коктейл Молотов		0

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

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