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Defensive war

Quality:

Defensive war - type of war justification. Article “Defensive war” in English Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Defensive war”, its content was written by 35 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 138 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in English Wikipedia and cited 359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #97641 in August 2013
  • Global: #17938 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #615091 in April 2008
  • Global: #462587 in January 2008

There are 8 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
27.5033
2English (en)
Defensive war
27.0909
3German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
23.4602
4Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
21.3305
5French (fr)
Guerre défensive
10.7262
6Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
10.6159
7Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
1.1142
8Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
0.2379
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Defensive war" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive war
99 792
2Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
87 323
3German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
75 771
4Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
18 889
5Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
6 553
6French (fr)
Guerre défensive
5 845
7Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
3 230
8Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
108
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Defensive war" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defensive war
451
2German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
247
3Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
217
4Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
116
5French (fr)
Guerre défensive
44
6Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
15
7Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
9
8Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Defensive war" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
36
2English (en)
Defensive war
35
3Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
26
4Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
23
5Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
10
6Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
3
7Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
3
8French (fr)
Guerre défensive
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Defensive war" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
0
2English (en)
Defensive war
0
3Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
0
4French (fr)
Guerre défensive
0
5Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
0
6Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
0
7Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
0
8Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Defensive war" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Guerre défensive
211
2German (de)
Verteidigungskrieg
67
3Japanese (ja)
自衛戦争
30
4English (en)
Defensive war
23
5Hebrew (he)
מלחמת אין ברירה
11
6Ukrainian (uk)
Оборонна війна
11
7Croatian (hr)
Obrambeni rat
4
8Esperanto (eo)
Defenda milito
2
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Verteidigungskrieg
enEnglish
Defensive war
eoEsperanto
Defenda milito
frFrench
Guerre défensive
heHebrew
מלחמת אין ברירה
hrCroatian
Obrambeni rat
jaJapanese
自衛戦争
ukUkrainian
Оборонна війна

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#615091
04.2008
Global:
#462587
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#97641
08.2013
Global:
#17938
09.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Defensive war from Wikipedia articles about 1939 Invasion of Poland, War of aggression, War, Six-Day War and War of annihilation. Whereas reading the article about Defensive war people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Just war theory, Preventive war, War of aggression, Kellogg-Briand pact and Self-defence in international law.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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