Covert operation

Quality:

Covert operation - operation of an intelligence agency or the military that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. Article “Covert operation” in English Wikipedia has 50.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 49 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.86 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Covert operation”, its content was written by 855 registered users of English Wikipedia (9884^th place) and edited by 1113 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1941 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #239 in November 2010
• Global: #4634 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #291 in November 2010
• Global: #1231 in November 2010

There are 21 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	Polish (pl) Operacja pod przykryciem		54.088
2	English (en) Covert operation		50.2115
3	Korean (ko) 비밀 작전		47.6735
4	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		31.6564
5	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		30.6772
6	French (fr) Opération secrète		27.4414
7	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		26.4682
8	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		24.9206
9	Thai (th) ปฏิบัติการซ่อนเร้น		22.2106
10	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		20.5699

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Covert operation		11 075 698
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		550 948
3	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		152 390
4	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		130 063
5	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		72 707
6	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		47 713
7	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		46 347
8	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		14 998
9	French (fr) Opération secrète		10 033
10	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		8 170

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) Covert operation		21 863
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		922
3	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		420
4	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		369
5	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		259
6	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		238
7	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		213
8	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		181
9	Polish (pl) Operacja pod przykryciem		110
10	French (fr) Opération secrète		70

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Covert operation		855
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		95
3	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		29
4	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		22
5	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		19
6	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		12
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		11
8	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		11
9	French (fr) Opération secrète		9
10	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		9

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	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		1
2	Korean (ko) 비밀 작전		1
3	Turkish (tr) Gizli operasyon		1
4	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		0
5	English (en) Covert operation		0
6	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		0
7	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Salainen operaatio		0
9	French (fr) Opération secrète		0
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		0

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

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