Store Syrte-episoden (1981)

Gulf of Sidra incident - 1981 air battle between Libya and the United States in the Mediterranean. This event is the 4785^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Store Syrte-episoden (1981)” in Danish Wikipedia has 37.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Danish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Store Syrte-episoden (1981)”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 398 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Gulf of Sidra incident is on the 4785^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 1827 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #8786 in February 2016
• Global: #31274 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #73107 in August 2016
• Global: #66923 in March 2011

There are 15 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) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		56.4226
2	Danish (da) Store Syrte-episoden (1981)		37.2234
3	Ukrainian (uk) Інцидент у затоці Сідра (1981)		36.3333
4	Indonesian (id) Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)		29.8059
5	Chinese (zh) 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)		28.733
6	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		18.2702
7	Croatian (hr) Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.		15.5819
8	Portuguese (pt) Incidente no Golfo de Sidra (1981)		12.5448
9	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		12.213
10	Finnish (fi) Syrtinlahden välikohtaus		11.7843

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Store Syrte-episoden (1981)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		1 205 366
2	Japanese (ja) シドラ湾事件 (1981年)		172 703
3	Russian (ru) Инцидент в заливе Сидра (1981)		76 021
4	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		59 043
5	Arabic (ar) حادثة خليج سرت (1981)		54 412
6	Chinese (zh) 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)		40 523
7	French (fr) Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)		24 476
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		21 730
9	Portuguese (pt) Incidente no Golfo de Sidra (1981)		5 228
10	Croatian (hr) Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.		4 986

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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 "Store Syrte-episoden (1981)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		5 040
2	Japanese (ja) シドラ湾事件 (1981年)		898
3	Russian (ru) Инцидент в заливе Сидра (1981)		422
4	Arabic (ar) حادثة خليج سرت (1981)		321
5	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		280
6	Chinese (zh) 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)		276
7	French (fr) Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)		214
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		213
9	Ukrainian (uk) Інцидент у затоці Сідра (1981)		45
10	Croatian (hr) Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.		44

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

Language versions of the article "Store Syrte-episoden (1981)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		187
2	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		47
3	Arabic (ar) حادثة خليج سرت (1981)		34
4	Japanese (ja) シドラ湾事件 (1981年)		27
5	Chinese (zh) 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)		23
6	Russian (ru) Инцидент в заливе Сидра (1981)		18
7	French (fr) Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)		17
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		16
9	Croatian (hr) Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.		9
10	Bulgarian (bg) Инцидент в залива Сидра (1981)		7

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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 "Store Syrte-episoden (1981)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حادثة خليج سرت (1981)		3
2	Bulgarian (bg) Инцидент в залива Сидра (1981)		1
3	Danish (da) Store Syrte-episoden (1981)		0
4	English (en) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		0
5	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		0
6	Finnish (fi) Syrtinlahden välikohtaus		0
7	French (fr) Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)		0
8	Croatian (hr) Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.		0
9	Indonesian (id) Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)		0
10	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		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 "Store Syrte-episoden (1981)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)		589
2	Chinese (zh) 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)		343
3	Arabic (ar) حادثة خليج سرت (1981)		278
4	Portuguese (pt) Incidente no Golfo de Sidra (1981)		198
5	Indonesian (id) Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)		123
6	Russian (ru) Инцидент в заливе Сидра (1981)		103
7	Italian (it) Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte		86
8	French (fr) Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)		41
9	Japanese (ja) シドラ湾事件 (1981年)		25
10	Spanish (es) Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حادثة خليج سرت (1981)
bg	Bulgarian Инцидент в залива Сидра (1981)
da	Danish Store Syrte-episoden (1981)
en	English Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
es	Spanish Incidente del Golfo de Sirte (1981)
fi	Finnish Syrtinlahden välikohtaus
fr	French Incident du golfe de Syrte (1981)
hr	Croatian Incident u zaljevu Sidre 1981.
id	Indonesian Insiden Teluk Sidra (1981)
it	Italian Primo scontro aereo del golfo della Sirte
ja	Japanese シドラ湾事件 (1981年)
pt	Portuguese Incidente no Golfo de Sidra (1981)
ru	Russian Инцидент в заливе Сидра (1981)
uk	Ukrainian Інцидент у затоці Сідра (1981)
zh	Chinese 锡德拉湾事件 (1981年)

Best Rank

Danish: #73107 08.2016

Global: #66923 03.2011

Best Rank

Danish: #8786 02.2016

Global: #31274 09.2012

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