Air gun

Quality:

Air gun - gun that uses compressed air to launch projectiles. Article “Air gun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 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 “Air gun”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1577 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2692 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #116 in September 2006
• Global: #1999 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2973 in May 2020
• Global: #10319 in August 2008

There are 31 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) Air gun		69.8969
2	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		63.4494
3	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		47.9065
4	German (de) Luftgewehr		47.3191
5	Croatian (hr) Zračna puška		40.2713
6	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		30.8599
7	Catalan (ca) Arma d'aire-gas		28.7093
8	Swedish (sv) Luftvapen (skjutvapen)		25.6289
9	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		22.7252
10	Bulgarian (bg) Въздушна пушка		21.6728

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Air gun		6 930 462
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		1 834 264
3	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		1 332 035
4	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		663 746
5	Indonesian (id) Senapan angin		495 615
6	Dutch (nl) Luchtgeweer		379 926
7	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		350 660
8	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		287 980
9	Arabic (ar) بندقية ضغط الهواء		239 334
10	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		185 552

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) Air gun		22 592
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		2 475
3	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		2 140
4	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		1 242
5	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		971
6	Arabic (ar) بندقية ضغط الهواء		901
7	Simple English (simple) Air gun		671
8	Hebrew (he) רובה אוויר		519
9	Polish (pl) Wiatrówka		505
10	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		476

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Air gun		582
2	German (de) Luftgewehr		179
3	Dutch (nl) Luchtgeweer		92
4	Hebrew (he) רובה אוויר		72
5	Japanese (ja) 空気銃		72
6	Norwegian (no) Luftvåpen		65
7	Chinese (zh) 氣槍		52
8	Swedish (sv) Luftvapen (skjutvapen)		48
9	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		47
10	Danish (da) Luftriffel		41

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) Arma d'aire-gas		1
2	English (en) Air gun		1
3	Persian (fa) تفنگ بادی		1
4	Arabic (ar) بندقية ضغط الهواء		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Въздушна пушка		0
6	Czech (cs) Vzduchová pistole		0
7	Danish (da) Luftriffel		0
8	German (de) Luftgewehr		0
9	Finnish (fi) Ilmakivääri		0
10	Hebrew (he) רובה אוויר		0

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

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