Operation Northwoods

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Operation Northwoods - Proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States government in 1962. This event is the 496^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 751^st most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Operation Northwoods” in German Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 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 751^st most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 496^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Operation Northwoods” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Northwoods”, its content was written by 87 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1043 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Northwoods is on the 751^st place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 496^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in German Wikipedia and cited 536 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3468 in June 2019
• Global: #4184 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #943 in July 2014
• Global: #6619 in October 2019

There are 32 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) Operation Northwoods		54.7244
2	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Νόρθγουντς		45.3186
3	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		32.8452
4	Swedish (sv) Operation Northwoods		28.117
5	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		23.9121
6	German (de) Operation Northwoods		23.5943
7	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		23.1469
8	Armenian (hy) «Նորթվուդս» գործողություն		23.0822
9	Croatian (hr) Operacija Northwoods		21.2478
10	Russian (ru) Операция «Нордвудс»		21.0381

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Northwoods		12 542 865
2	German (de) Operation Northwoods		684 504
3	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		334 551
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Нордвудс»		238 469
5	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		212 049
6	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		187 306
7	Dutch (nl) Operation Northwoods		121 668
8	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		115 558
9	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		78 331
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Northwoods		76 080

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 Northwoods		28 306
2	German (de) Operation Northwoods		1 359
3	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		772
4	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		695
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Нордвудс»		565
6	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		450
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		234
8	Portuguese (pt) Operação Northwoods		178
9	Japanese (ja) ノースウッズ作戦		130
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע נורת'וודס		114

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Northwoods		444
2	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		98
3	German (de) Operation Northwoods		87
4	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		82
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Нордвудс»		41
6	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		29
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע נורת'וודס		24
8	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		22
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		20
10	Japanese (ja) ノースウッズ作戦		19

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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Operacija Northwoods		2
2	German (de) Operation Northwoods		1
3	English (en) Operation Northwoods		1
4	Armenian (hy) «Նորթվուդս» գործողություն		1
5	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		1
6	Arabic (ar) عملية نورثود		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Nortvuds əməliyyatı		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Операция Нортуудс		0
9	Catalan (ca) Operació Northwoods		0
10	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		0

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

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