Railway gun

Railway gun - artillery piece, mounted on and fired from a specially designed railway car. Article “Railway gun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 7 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 “Railway gun”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 592 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2804 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2073 in February 2012
• Global: #26209 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14812 in January 2013
• Global: #47764 in December 2010

There are 25 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) Railway gun		75.7749
2	Hebrew (he) תותח רכבת		46.3343
3	Simple English (simple) Railway gun		44.5276
4	Russian (ru) Железнодорожная артиллерия		38.7616
5	Spanish (es) Cañón ferroviario		35.1994
6	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		33.7367
7	Malay (ms) Meriam kereta api		31.9522
8	Japanese (ja) 列車砲		29.4423
9	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		29.1672
10	Norwegian (no) Jernbanekanon		28.8482

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Railway gun" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railway gun		2 236 642
2	Japanese (ja) 列車砲		1 074 530
3	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		840 068
4	Polish (pl) Działo kolejowe		167 009
5	Chinese (zh) 列車炮		151 657
6	Russian (ru) Железнодорожная артиллерия		139 711
7	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		107 840
8	Spanish (es) Cañón ferroviario		77 638
9	Italian (it) Cannone ferroviario		68 028
10	Finnish (fi) Rautatietykistö		63 898

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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 "Railway gun" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Railway gun		7 292
2	Japanese (ja) 列車砲		2 165
3	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		2 056
4	Chinese (zh) 列車炮		599
5	Spanish (es) Cañón ferroviario		446
6	Russian (ru) Железнодорожная артиллерия		440
7	Polish (pl) Działo kolejowe		356
8	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		350
9	Finnish (fi) Rautatietykistö		233
10	Italian (it) Cannone ferroviario		224

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railway gun		169
2	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		92
3	Japanese (ja) 列車砲		44
4	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		35
5	Norwegian (no) Jernbanekanon		35
6	Finnish (fi) Rautatietykistö		33
7	Russian (ru) Железнодорожная артиллерия		26
8	Polish (pl) Działo kolejowe		22
9	Hebrew (he) תותח רכבת		21
10	Italian (it) Cannone ferroviario		20

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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 "Railway gun" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Railway gun		2
2	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		1
3	Arabic (ar) مدفع سكة حديدية		0
4	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		0
5	Greek (el) Σιδηροδρομικό κανόνι		0
6	Spanish (es) Cañón ferroviario		0
7	Estonian (et) Raudteesuurtükk		0
8	Finnish (fi) Rautatietykistö		0
9	Hebrew (he) תותח רכבת		0
10	Indonesian (id) Meriam Rel Kereta Api		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 "Railway gun" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Railway gun		669
2	Japanese (ja) 列車砲		454
3	Russian (ru) Железнодорожная артиллерия		440
4	Italian (it) Cannone ferroviario		388
5	Chinese (zh) 列車炮		204
6	French (fr) Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée		189
7	Polish (pl) Działo kolejowe		131
8	German (de) Eisenbahngeschütz		114
9	Ukrainian (uk) Залізнична артилерія		35
10	Spanish (es) Cañón ferroviario		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مدفع سكة حديدية
de	German Eisenbahngeschütz
el	Greek Σιδηροδρομικό κανόνι
en	English Railway gun
es	Spanish Cañón ferroviario
et	Estonian Raudteesuurtükk
fi	Finnish Rautatietykistö
fr	French Artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée
he	Hebrew תותח רכבת
id	Indonesian Meriam Rel Kereta Api
it	Italian Cannone ferroviario
ja	Japanese 列車砲
kk	Kazakh Темір жол артиллериясы
ko	Korean 열차포
ms	Malay Meriam kereta api
nl	Dutch Spoorwegkanon
no	Norwegian Jernbanekanon
pl	Polish Działo kolejowe
pt	Portuguese Canhão ferroviário
ru	Russian Железнодорожная артиллерия
simple	Simple English Railway gun
sl	Slovenian Železniški top
sv	Swedish Järnvägsartilleri
uk	Ukrainian Залізнична артилерія
zh	Chinese 列車炮

Best Rank

Simple English: #14812 01.2013

Global: #47764 12.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #2073 02.2012

Global: #26209 01.2010

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