Gleiwitz incident

Gleiwitz incident - 1939 staged attack by Nazi forces. This event is the 1315^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Gleiwitz incident” in English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Gleiwitz incident”, its content was written by 246 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1068 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Gleiwitz incident is on the 1315^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 101 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1128 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12807 in April 2014
• Global: #7789 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8285 in February 2022
• Global: #4656 in February 2022

There are 33 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) Prowokacja gliwicka		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Gleiwitzi incidens		56.4594
3	Azerbaijani (az) Qleyvits təxribatı		46.7342
4	English (en) Gleiwitz incident		45.6848
5	Indonesian (id) Insiden Gleiwitz		44.9745
6	Chinese (zh) 格萊維茨事件		44.0591
7	Portuguese (pt) Incidente de Gleiwitz		41.5815
8	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		37.5895
9	Spanish (es) Incidente de Gliwice		36.3983
10	Thai (th) กรณีไกลวิทซ์		31.922

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Gleiwitz incident" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gleiwitz incident		2 354 826
2	Russian (ru) Нападение на радиостанцию в Глайвице		957 774
3	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		942 161
4	Polish (pl) Prowokacja gliwicka		691 672
5	Italian (it) Incidente di Gleiwitz		336 119
6	Czech (cs) Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích		187 774
7	Japanese (ja) グライヴィッツ事件		169 337
8	Chinese (zh) 格萊維茨事件		50 493
9	Hungarian (hu) Gleiwitzi incidens		50 335
10	Turkish (tr) Gleiwitz Vakası		49 530

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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 "Gleiwitz incident" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gleiwitz incident		7 768
2	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		3 289
3	Polish (pl) Prowokacja gliwicka		2 196
4	Russian (ru) Нападение на радиостанцию в Глайвице		2 133
5	Italian (it) Incidente di Gleiwitz		1 075
6	Czech (cs) Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích		610
7	Japanese (ja) グライヴィッツ事件		600
8	Chinese (zh) 格萊維茨事件		493
9	Spanish (es) Incidente de Gliwice		361
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гливицька провокація		307

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gleiwitz incident		246
2	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		156
3	Polish (pl) Prowokacja gliwicka		110
4	Italian (it) Incidente di Gleiwitz		85
5	Russian (ru) Нападение на радиостанцию в Глайвице		84
6	Hebrew (he) תקרית גלייביץ		48
7	Czech (cs) Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích		40
8	Hungarian (hu) Gleiwitzi incidens		31
9	Japanese (ja) グライヴィッツ事件		27
10	Chinese (zh) 格萊維茨事件		22

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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 "Gleiwitz incident" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hungarian (hu) Gleiwitzi incidens		2
2	Italian (it) Incidente di Gleiwitz		2
3	Polish (pl) Prowokacja gliwicka		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qleyvits təxribatı		1
5	Arabic (ar) قضية قلايفتز		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Глайвицки инцидент		0
7	Catalan (ca) Incident de Gleiwitz		0
8	Czech (cs) Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích		0
9	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		0
10	Greek (el) Επεισόδιο του Γκλάιβιτς		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 "Gleiwitz incident" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Romanian (ro) Incidentul Gleiwitz		287
2	Polish (pl) Prowokacja gliwicka		151
3	Czech (cs) Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích		127
4	English (en) Gleiwitz incident		101
5	Hebrew (he) תקרית גלייביץ		63
6	Ukrainian (uk) Гливицька провокація		63
7	German (de) Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz		60
8	Russian (ru) Нападение на радиостанцию в Глайвице		35
9	Italian (it) Incidente di Gleiwitz		25
10	Hungarian (hu) Gleiwitzi incidens		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قضية قلايفتز
az	Azerbaijani Qleyvits təxribatı
bg	Bulgarian Глайвицки инцидент
ca	Catalan Incident de Gleiwitz
cs	Czech Přepadení vysílačky v Gliwicích
de	German Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz
el	Greek Επεισόδιο του Γκλάιβιτς
en	English Gleiwitz incident
eo	Esperanto Provoko de Gliwice
es	Spanish Incidente de Gliwice
fa	Persian حادثه گلایویتس
he	Hebrew תקרית גלייביץ
hu	Hungarian Gleiwitzi incidens
hy	Armenian Գլայվիցի պատահար
id	Indonesian Insiden Gleiwitz
it	Italian Incidente di Gleiwitz
ja	Japanese グライヴィッツ事件
ko	Korean 글라이비츠 사건
ms	Malay Insiden Gleiwitz
pl	Polish Prowokacja gliwicka
pt	Portuguese Incidente de Gleiwitz
ro	Romanian Incidentul Gleiwitz
ru	Russian Нападение на радиостанцию в Глайвице
sh	Serbo-Croatian Incident u Gleiwitzu
simple	Simple English Gleiwitz incident
sk	Slovak Prepadnutie vysielača v Gliwiciach
sl	Slovenian Incident v Gleiwitzu
sr	Serbian Инцидент у Глајвицу
sv	Swedish Gleiwitzincidenten
th	Thai กรณีไกลวิทซ์
tr	Turkish Gleiwitz Vakası
uk	Ukrainian Гливицька провокація
zh	Chinese 格萊維茨事件

Best Rank

English: #8285 02.2022

Global: #4656 02.2022

Best Rank

English: #12807 04.2014

Global: #7789 08.2014

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