Rifle

Quality:

Rifle - firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, and with a rifled barrel. Article “Rifle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 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 7888^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9400^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8779^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1674^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Rifle” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1674^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rifle”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2604 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9400^th place).

The article is cited 172 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23647 times in all languages (6942^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #294 in August 2016
• Global: #1281 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #972 in June 2024
• Global: #4480 in July 2011

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) Rifle		72.6249
2	Polish (pl) Karabin		68.4788
3	Portuguese (pt) Fuzil		48.999
4	Japanese (ja) 小銃		48.2382
5	Czech (cs) Puška		47.2808
6	Chinese (zh) 步枪		44.0818
7	French (fr) Fusil (arme)		43.7252
8	Italian (it) Fucile		42.7065
9	Russian (ru) Винтовка		41.5687
10	Catalan (ca) Fusell (arma)		40.2767

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rifle		8 155 113
2	Japanese (ja) 小銃		2 665 263
3	Spanish (es) Fusil		1 579 463
4	Portuguese (pt) Fuzil		1 109 135
5	German (de) Gewehr		1 096 605
6	Russian (ru) Винтовка		1 091 858
7	French (fr) Fusil (arme)		818 021
8	Italian (it) Fucile		752 744
9	Polish (pl) Karabin		726 779
10	Chinese (zh) 步枪		664 837

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) Rifle		20 994
2	Japanese (ja) 小銃		5 944
3	Russian (ru) Винтовка		3 562
4	Spanish (es) Fusil		2 379
5	Chinese (zh) 步枪		2 292
6	German (de) Gewehr		1 738
7	French (fr) Fusil (arme)		1 540
8	Portuguese (pt) Fuzil		1 393
9	Persian (fa) تفنگ گلوله‌زنی		1 306
10	Polish (pl) Karabin		1 178

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rifle		621
2	German (de) Gewehr		170
3	French (fr) Fusil (arme)		143
4	Japanese (ja) 小銃		119
5	Italian (it) Fucile		114
6	Spanish (es) Fusil		113
7	Dutch (nl) Geweer		105
8	Portuguese (pt) Fuzil		104
9	Russian (ru) Винтовка		91
10	Hebrew (he) רובה		88

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	Arabic (ar) بندقية (سلاح)		2
2	Simple English (simple) Rifle		2
3	Danish (da) Riffel		1
4	English (en) Rifle		1
5	Persian (fa) تفنگ گلوله‌زنی		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kivääri		1
7	French (fr) Fusil (arme)		1
8	Hebrew (he) רובה		1
9	Italian (it) Fucile		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Súng trường		1

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

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