Shell (projectile)

Quality:

Shell - exploding artillery projectile. Article “Shell (projectile)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Shell (projectile)”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1309 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 59 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13646 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1197 in November 2020
• Global: #7491 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4690 in May 2025
• Global: #11993 in March 2022

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) Shell (projectile)		72.5888
2	Vietnamese (vi) Đạn pháo		54.5107
3	Swedish (sv) Granat		54.1929
4	French (fr) Obus		46.4743
5	Chinese (zh) 炮彈		45.557
6	German (de) Granate		40.6749
7	Hebrew (he) פגז		32.3516
8	Danish (da) Artillerigranat		32.3133
9	Malay (ms) Peluru meriam		31.2627
10	Czech (cs) Dělostřelecký granát		29.7436

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell (projectile)		4 711 892
2	German (de) Granate		1 094 522
3	Japanese (ja) 砲弾		795 868
4	French (fr) Obus		709 087
5	Russian (ru) Снаряд		690 829
6	Chinese (zh) 炮彈		373 364
7	Polish (pl) Pocisk artyleryjski		292 557
8	Spanish (es) Obús (proyectil)		275 223
9	Italian (it) Granata (proiettile)		268 892
10	Dutch (nl) Granaat (munitie)		256 945

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) Shell (projectile)		11 718
2	German (de) Granate		1 737
3	French (fr) Obus		1 646
4	Japanese (ja) 砲弾		1 625
5	Persian (fa) خمپاره		1 495
6	Chinese (zh) 炮彈		1 056
7	Russian (ru) Снаряд		983
8	Spanish (es) Obús (proyectil)		481
9	Dutch (nl) Granaat (munitie)		370
10	Polish (pl) Pocisk artyleryjski		370

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell (projectile)		325
2	German (de) Granate		162
3	French (fr) Obus		113
4	Dutch (nl) Granaat (munitie)		63
5	Hebrew (he) פגז		62
6	Russian (ru) Снаряд		58
7	Finnish (fi) Kranaatti		48
8	Japanese (ja) 砲弾		45
9	Chinese (zh) 炮彈		45
10	Italian (it) Granata (proiettile)		40

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) Shell (projectile)		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Артилерійський снаряд		1
3	Arabic (ar) قذيفة مدفعية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Mərmi		0
5	Belarusian (be) Снарад		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Снаряд		0
7	Catalan (ca) Obús (projectil)		0
8	Czech (cs) Dělostřelecký granát		0
9	Danish (da) Artillerigranat		0
10	German (de) Granate		0

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

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