Battle of Verdun

Quality:

Battle of Verdun - 1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War. This event is the 163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 271^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Verdun” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 166 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 271^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7198^th most popular in all topics.

The 4990^th most popular in AI.

The 163^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4918^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7592^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5885^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Battle of Verdun” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (4918^th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (5885^th place).

Since the creation of article “Battle of Verdun”, its content was written by 771 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3596 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4990^th place).

Battle of Verdun is on the 271^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 163^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1367 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10773 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1750 in May 2002
• Global: #1301 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4142 in May 2016
• Global: #1065 in February 2016

There are 48 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	Hungarian (hu) Verduni csata (1916)		100
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		95.3898
3	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		93.9907
4	English (en) Battle of Verdun		91.3683
5	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		85.1497
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		85.0689
7	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Вердюн		84.8816
8	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		74.96
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Verdun		72.2994
10	Esperanto (eo) Batalo apud Verdun		60.5705

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Verdun		11 206 767
2	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		5 347 232
3	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		4 734 840
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		2 332 264
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		2 330 424
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		1 248 255
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		1 239 772
8	Japanese (ja) ヴェルダンの戦い		819 929
9	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		787 345
10	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		522 909

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 Verdun		50 429
2	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		14 714
3	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		14 105
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		8 173
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		6 537
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		4 950
7	Japanese (ja) ヴェルダンの戦い		3 486
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		2 930
9	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		2 795
10	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		1 922

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 Verdun		771
2	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		553
3	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		512
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		151
5	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		147
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		128
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		125
8	Hebrew (he) קרב ורדן		100
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		95
10	Danish (da) Slaget ved Verdun		74

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 Verdun		11
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		4
3	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		3
4	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Verdun		2
5	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Вердюн		1
6	Czech (cs) Bitva u Verdunu		1
7	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		1
8	Armenian (hy) Վերդենի ճակատամարտ		1
9	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Verdeno mūšis		1

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

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