Killing of Osama bin Laden

Quality:

Death of Osama bin Laden - U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This event is the 106^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 57^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "Killing of Osama bin Laden" in English Wikipedia has 99.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 556 references and 43 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3136^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2475^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 57^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4812^th most popular in all topics.

The 5734^th most popular in AI.

The 106^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4678^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5763^rd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4207^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7957^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Killing of Osama bin Laden" was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (5763^rd place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (7957^th place).

Since the creation of article "Killing of Osama bin Laden", its content was written by 1413 registered users of English Wikipedia (2475^th place) and edited by 3234 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5734^th place).

Death of Osama bin Laden is on the 57^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 106^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2268 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in May 2011
• Global: #2 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17 in May 2011
• Global: #25 in May 2011

There are 32 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		100
2	Turkish (tr) Usame bin Ladin'in ölümü		100
3	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		99.5853
4	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		96.1783
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết của Osama bin Laden		95.3636
6	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		95.1896
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		93.8462
8	German (de) Operation Neptune Spear		91.4286
9	Armenian (hy) Գործողություն «Նեպտունի եռաժանի»		86.6667
10	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		84.0681

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		24 536 101
2	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		2 399 627
3	Japanese (ja) ウサーマ・ビン・ラーディンの殺害		2 327 836
4	German (de) Operation Neptune Spear		1 644 646
5	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		1 482 346
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		1 357 012
7	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		1 102 182
8	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		1 082 059
9	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		595 965
10	Polish (pl) Operacja Neptune Spear		550 005

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) Killing of Osama bin Laden		118 786
2	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		19 054
3	Japanese (ja) ウサーマ・ビン・ラーディンの殺害		13 545
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		10 227
5	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		8 453
6	German (de) Operation Neptune Spear		7 774
7	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		5 802
8	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		5 611
9	Korean (ko) 오사마 빈라덴의 죽음		5 505
10	Arabic (ar) مقتل أسامة بن لادن		5 032

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		1 413
2	German (de) Operation Neptune Spear		248
3	French (fr) Mort d'Oussama ben Laden		217
4	Chinese (zh) 奥萨马·本·拉登之死		129
5	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		126
6	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		116
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Копьё Нептуна»		105
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע חנית נפטון		103
9	Portuguese (pt) Morte de Osama bin Laden		101
10	Polish (pl) Operacja Neptune Spear		73

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	English (en) Killing of Osama bin Laden		13
2	Spanish (es) Muerte de Osama bin Laden		4
3	Turkish (tr) Usame bin Ladin'in ölümü		3
4	Polish (pl) Operacja Neptune Spear		2
5	Arabic (ar) مقتل أسامة بن لادن		1
6	Italian (it) Morte di Osama bin Laden		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Operacija Neptunovo kopje		1
8	Swedish (sv) Operation Neptune Spear		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Üsamə bin Ladenin öldürülməsi		0
10	Catalan (ca) Mort d'Ossama bin Laden		0

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

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