Unternehmen Merkur

Quality:

87

Battle of Crete - 1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete. This event is the 678^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 223^rd most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article "Unternehmen Merkur" in German Wikipedia has 86.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 47 references and 21 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 7179^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 223^rd most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 678^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article "Unternehmen Merkur", its content was written by 306 registered users of German Wikipedia (7179^th place) and edited by 2180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Crete is on the 223^rd place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 678^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 297 times in German Wikipedia and cited 9222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1162 in June 2017
• Global: #2968 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #541 in May 2011
• Global: #13112 in May 2011

There are 40 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		98.7883
2	English (en) Battle of Crete		88.9941
3	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		86.9027
4	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Crete		86.1682
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		75.5463
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		71.6132
7	Finnish (fi) Kreetan taistelu		70.409
8	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		68.2619
9	Hebrew (he) הקרב על כרתים		66.2061
10	Romanian (ro) Bătălia din Creta		61.0487

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		3 774 099
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		1 555 525
3	Russian (ru) Критская операция		456 638
4	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		383 223
5	Japanese (ja) クレタ島の戦い		302 888
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		290 783
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		277 678
8	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		254 340
9	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		228 893
10	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		160 718

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) Battle of Crete		21 062
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		6 508
3	Russian (ru) Критская операция		2 620
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		2 322
5	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		1 800
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		1 527
7	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		1 390
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		1 326
9	Japanese (ja) クレタ島の戦い		1 006
10	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		705

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Crete		546
2	German (de) Unternehmen Merkur		306
3	French (fr) Bataille de Crète		152
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Creta		101
5	Russian (ru) Критская операция		95
6	Dutch (nl) Landing op Kreta		85
7	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		84
8	Hebrew (he) הקרב על כרתים		76
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		68
10	Chinese (zh) 克里特島戰役		59

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) Battle of Crete		3
2	Bulgarian (bg) Битка за Крит		1
3	Greek (el) Μάχη της Κρήτης		1
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Creta		1
5	Polish (pl) Bitwa o Kretę		1
6	Russian (ru) Критская операция		1
7	Serbian (sr) Битка за Крит		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trận Crete		1
9	Arabic (ar) معركة كريت		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Krit əməliyyatı		0

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

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