Operation Eagle Claw

Quality:

Operation Eagle Claw - 1980 Delta Force failed operation for rescuing American hostages. This event is the 688^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 899^th most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Operation Eagle Claw” in German Wikipedia has 35.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 899^th most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 688^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9610^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Operation Eagle Claw” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Eagle Claw”, its content was written by 102 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1239 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Eagle Claw is on the 899^th place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 688^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 54 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1755 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #9134 in February 2023
• Global: #6225 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #6678 in April 2025
• Global: #9310 in April 2025

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) Operation Eagle Claw		94.6024
2	Persian (fa) عملیات پنجه عقاب		68.1427
3	Chinese (zh) 鹰爪行动		46.5736
4	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Орлиний кіготь»		46.4566
5	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Νύχι του Αετού		43.1742
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Eagle Claw		41.6651
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Орлиный коготь»		37.0521
8	German (de) Operation Eagle Claw		35.8293
9	Arabic (ar) عملية مخلب النسر		35.3149
10	Turkish (tr) Kartal Pençesi Operasyonu		30.3472

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Eagle Claw		6 252 929
2	Persian (fa) عملیات پنجه عقاب		1 159 998
3	Japanese (ja) イーグルクロー作戦		692 933
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Орлиный коготь»		628 661
5	German (de) Operation Eagle Claw		533 193
6	French (fr) Opération Eagle Claw		313 085
7	Italian (it) Operazione Eagle Claw		218 391
8	Chinese (zh) 鹰爪行动		200 012
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Orli Szpon		155 428
10	Arabic (ar) عملية مخلب النسر		103 848

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) Operation Eagle Claw		68 522
2	Chinese (zh) 鹰爪行动		9 998
3	Persian (fa) عملیات پنجه عقاب		8 973
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Орлиный коготь»		5 908
5	French (fr) Opération Eagle Claw		5 237
6	German (de) Operation Eagle Claw		4 281
7	Arabic (ar) عملية مخلب النسر		3 668
8	Italian (it) Operazione Eagle Claw		3 550
9	Japanese (ja) イーグルクロー作戦		3 351
10	Polish (pl) Operacja Orli Szpon		1 172

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Eagle Claw		492
2	Persian (fa) عملیات پنجه عقاب		140
3	German (de) Operation Eagle Claw		102
4	French (fr) Opération Eagle Claw		79
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Орлиный коготь»		69
6	Italian (it) Operazione Eagle Claw		54
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע טופר העיט		43
8	Hungarian (hu) Saskarom hadművelet		41
9	Japanese (ja) イーグルクロー作戦		41
10	Chinese (zh) 鹰爪行动		24

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) Operation Eagle Claw		4
2	Persian (fa) عملیات پنجه عقاب		4
3	German (de) Operation Eagle Claw		2
4	Italian (it) Operazione Eagle Claw		1
5	Turkish (tr) Kartal Pençesi Operasyonu		1
6	Arabic (ar) عملية مخلب النسر		0
7	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Νύχι του Αετού		0
8	Basque (eu) Eagle Claw operazioa		0
9	French (fr) Opération Eagle Claw		0
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע טופר העיט		0

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

On 15 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Wuthering Heights, 2026 Winter Olympics, Epstein files, Ilia Malinin, Wuthering Heights, Ghislaine Maxwell, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, 2026 Winter Olympics medal table, Valentine's Day.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Jeffrey Epstein, Cordelia Wege, Polizeiruf 110: Der Wanderer zieht von dannen, Lawrence von Arabien (Film), Medaillenspiegel der Olympischen Winterspiele 2026, Peter Kurth (Schauspieler), Die Tribute von Panem – The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Olympische Winterspiele 2026/Eishockey (Herren), Olympische Winterspiele 2026, Federica Brignone.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information