German tank problem

German tank problem - estimating the maximum of a discrete uniform distribution from sampling without replacement, historically from predicting German tank production based on ascending serial numbers in tanks lost in combat. Article “German tank problem” in English Wikipedia has 50.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.64 points.

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

Since the creation of article “German tank problem”, its content was written by 144 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in English Wikipedia and cited 64 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17410 in February 2014
• Global: #24395 in February 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #462 in September 2016
• Global: #1975 in September 2016

There are 12 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	Chinese (zh) 德国坦克问题		59.665
2	English (en) German tank problem		50.72
3	German (de) German tank problem		42.3906
4	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		29.3467
5	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		27.7794
6	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		27.5802
7	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		24.7388
8	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		6.4209
9	Russian (ru) Задача о немецких танках		3.8947
10	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		3.116

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

The most popular language versions of the article "German tank problem" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) German tank problem		2 143 428
2	German (de) German tank problem		56 922
3	Chinese (zh) 德国坦克问题		41 110
4	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		33 003
5	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		27 138
6	Russian (ru) Задача о немецких танках		21 433
7	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		14 387
8	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		13 595
9	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		12 711
10	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		4 975

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "German tank problem" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) German tank problem		5 396
2	German (de) German tank problem		441
3	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		279
4	Chinese (zh) 德国坦克问题		246
5	Russian (ru) Задача о немецких танках		195
6	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		89
7	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		70
8	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		38
9	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		33
10	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		32

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

Language versions of the article "German tank problem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) German tank problem		144
2	German (de) German tank problem		24
3	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		21
4	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		19
5	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		14
6	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		10
7	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		7
8	Chinese (zh) 德国坦克问题		7
9	Basque (eu) Alemaniar tankeen ebazkizuna		3
10	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		2

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

Language versions of the article "German tank problem" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) German tank problem		0
2	English (en) German tank problem		0
3	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		0
4	Basque (eu) Alemaniar tankeen ebazkizuna		0
5	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		0
6	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		0
7	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		0
8	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		0
10	Russian (ru) Задача о немецких танках		0

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

Language versions of the article "German tank problem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) German tank problem		33
2	Hebrew (he) בעיית הטנק הגרמני		6
3	Persian (fa) مسئله تانک آلمانی		5
4	German (de) German tank problem		4
5	Chinese (zh) 德国坦克问题		4
6	French (fr) Problème du char d'assaut allemand		3
7	Polish (pl) Problem niemieckich czołgów		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Problema dos tanques alemães		2
9	Slovenian (sl) Problem nemških tankov		2
10	Spanish (es) Problema de los tanques alemanes		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German German tank problem
en	English German tank problem
es	Spanish Problema de los tanques alemanes
eu	Basque Alemaniar tankeen ebazkizuna
fa	Persian مسئله تانک آلمانی
fr	French Problème du char d'assaut allemand
he	Hebrew בעיית הטנק הגרמני
pl	Polish Problem niemieckich czołgów
pt	Portuguese Problema dos tanques alemães
ru	Russian Задача о немецких танках
sl	Slovenian Problem nemških tankov
zh	Chinese 德国坦克问题

Best Rank

English: #462 09.2016

Global: #1975 09.2016

Best Rank

English: #17410 02.2014

Global: #24395 02.2014

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