Mortar (weapon)

Quality:

Mortar - artillery weapon that launches explosive projectiles at high angles. Article “Mortar (weapon)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 64.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 13 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 “Mortar (weapon)”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1832 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19468 times in all languages (8870^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #796 in March 2019
• Global: #4240 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #525 in March 2022
• Global: #7085 in October 2023

There are 46 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) Mortar (weapon)		67.2205
2	Simple English (simple) Mortar (weapon)		64.6387
3	Tamil (ta) கணையெக்கி		59.6014
4	Japanese (ja) 迫撃砲		54.1217
5	Hindi (hi) मोर्टार (हथियार)		52.2033
6	Hebrew (he) מרגמה		49.6435
7	German (de) Mörser (Geschütz)		46.9799
8	Russian (ru) Мортира		46.4811
9	Catalan (ca) Morter (arma)		45.8355
10	French (fr) Mortier (arme)		43.9263

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mortar (weapon)		8 432 192
2	Japanese (ja) 迫撃砲		2 270 712
3	German (de) Mörser (Geschütz)		1 783 779
4	French (fr) Mortier (arme)		857 561
5	Russian (ru) Мортира		843 331
6	Spanish (es) Mortero (arma)		797 116
7	Polish (pl) Moździerz		794 271
8	Arabic (ar) هاون (سلاح)		525 624
9	Chinese (zh) 迫击炮		517 733
10	Portuguese (pt) Morteiro		457 767

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) Mortar (weapon)		20 469
2	Japanese (ja) 迫撃砲		5 469
3	German (de) Mörser (Geschütz)		3 539
4	French (fr) Mortier (arme)		3 403
5	Russian (ru) Мортира		1 907
6	Chinese (zh) 迫击炮		1 285
7	Italian (it) Mortaio (arma)		1 204
8	Polish (pl) Moździerz		1 177
9	Spanish (es) Mortero (arma)		1 137
10	Persian (fa) خمپاره‌انداز		813

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mortar (weapon)		439
2	German (de) Mörser (Geschütz)		169
3	French (fr) Mortier (arme)		121
4	Hebrew (he) מרגמה		112
5	Japanese (ja) 迫撃砲		105
6	Italian (it) Mortaio (arma)		93
7	Turkish (tr) Havan		64
8	Russian (ru) Мортира		62
9	Dutch (nl) Mortier (wapen)		58
10	Chinese (zh) 迫击炮		58

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	Catalan (ca) Morter (arma)		3
2	Turkish (tr) Havan		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Minaatan		1
4	Greek (el) Όλμος		1
5	Basque (eu) Mortero (arma)		1
6	Japanese (ja) 迫撃砲		1
7	Romanian (ro) Mortier		1
8	Tamil (ta) கணையெக்கி		1
9	Arabic (ar) هاون (سلاح)		0
10	Belarusian (be) Марціра		0

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

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