Battle of Verdun

Quality:

Battle of Verdun - 1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War. This event is the 159^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 275^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Verdun” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 165 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 275^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7259^th most popular in all topics.

The 5073^rd most popular in AI.

The 159^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9636^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Battle of Verdun” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Verdun”, its content was written by 741 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3520 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5073^rd place).

Battle of Verdun is on the 275^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 159^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1337 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10367 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1752 in May 2002
• Global: #1302 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4121 in May 2016
• Global: #1063 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, 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	Hungarian (hu) Verduni csata (1916)		100
2	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		96.1533
3	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		93.4882
4	English (en) Battle of Verdun		91.344
5	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Вердюн		88.4961
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		86.0543
7	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		83.1286
8	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		75.0089
9	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Verdun		62.2604
10	Esperanto (eo) Batalo apud Verdun		61.0239

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Verdun		10 546 229
2	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		5 163 807
3	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		4 538 373
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		2 258 525
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		2 097 791
6	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		1 193 323
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		1 178 761
8	Japanese (ja) ヴェルダンの戦い		773 764
9	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		760 490
10	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		483 908

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		47 018
2	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		13 551
3	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		13 332
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		8 497
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		5 701
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		5 384
7	Japanese (ja) ヴェルダンの戦い		3 667
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		3 110
9	Chinese (zh) 凡尔登战役		2 975
10	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		2 199

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		741
2	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		545
3	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		494
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Verdun		150
5	Dutch (nl) Slag om Verdun		142
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Вердене		124
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Verdún		121
8	Hebrew (he) קרב ורדן		96
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Verdun		94
10	Danish (da) Slaget ved Verdun		71

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	Czech (cs) Bitva u Verdunu		4
2	German (de) Schlacht um Verdun		2
3	English (en) Battle of Verdun		2
4	Finnish (fi) Verdunin taistelu		1
5	French (fr) Bataille de Verdun		1
6	Galician (gl) Batalla de Verdún		1
7	Lithuanian (lt) Verdeno mūšis		1
8	Simple English (simple) Battle of Verdun		1
9	Arabic (ar) معركة فردان		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Verden döyüşü		0

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

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