Operation Torch

Quality:

Operation Torch - 1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II. This event is the 741^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 903^rd most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Operation Torch” in German Wikipedia has 84.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 75 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.43 points.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 903^rd most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 741^st most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Operation Torch” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Torch”, its content was written by 153 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Torch is on the 903^rd place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 741^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 487 times in German Wikipedia and cited 14317 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1602 in April 2023
• Global: #3204 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3731 in November 2012
• Global: #19934 in June 2026

There are 42 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	Catalan (ca) Operació Torxa		93.9455
2	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		93.9307
3	English (en) Operation Torch		86.3497
4	German (de) Operation Torch		84.2578
5	French (fr) Opération Torch		83.3775
6	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		69.3815
7	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		49.6328
8	Serbian (sr) Операција Бакља		43.6003
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		41.3896
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Tocha		40.9407

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Torch		5 823 962
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		975 694
3	German (de) Operation Torch		565 986
4	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		491 424
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		410 749
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		391 250
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		371 445
8	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		276 272
9	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		188 753
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		119 540

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 Torch		35 147
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		13 405
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		2 043
4	German (de) Operation Torch		1 840
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		1 381
6	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		1 354
7	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		1 294
8	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		1 123
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		1 097
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		436

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Torch		560
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		331
3	German (de) Operation Torch		153
4	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		97
5	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		79
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		68
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		65
8	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		61
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		61
10	Danish (da) Operation Torch		49

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) Operació Torxa		3
2	German (de) Operation Torch		2
3	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		2
4	Serbian (sr) Операција Бакља		2
5	Arabic (ar) عملية الشعلة		1
6	English (en) Operation Torch		1
7	French (fr) Opération Torch		1
8	Simple English (simple) Operation Torch		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Факел“		0
10	Czech (cs) Operace Torch		0

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

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