Operation Northwoods

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Operation Northwoods - Proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States government in 1962. This event is the 497^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 230^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Northwoods” in English Wikipedia has 55.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 230^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 497^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7079^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Operation Northwoods” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Northwoods”, its content was written by 427 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1000 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Northwoods is on the 230^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 497^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 99 times in English Wikipedia and cited 605 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1720 in March 2003
• Global: #4180 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2160 in October 2019
• Global: #6603 in October 2019

There are 31 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	English (en) Operation Northwoods		55.8449
2	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Νόρθγουντς		45.0479
3	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		32.8857
4	Swedish (sv) Operation Northwoods		28.265
5	German (de) Operation Northwoods		24.2845
6	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		24.0006
7	Armenian (hy) «Նորթվուդս» գործողություն		23.3739
8	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		23.2435
9	Croatian (hr) Operacija Northwoods		21.2952
10	Dutch (nl) Operation Northwoods		19.9947

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Northwoods		11 882 049
2	German (de) Operation Northwoods		665 836
3	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		322 909
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Нортвудс»		217 301
5	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		204 916
6	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		173 842
7	Dutch (nl) Operation Northwoods		119 048
8	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		104 557
9	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		76 690
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Northwoods		69 375

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) Operation Northwoods		84 194
2	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		1 915
3	German (de) Operation Northwoods		1 910
4	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		908
5	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		855
6	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		667
7	Portuguese (pt) Operação Northwoods		635
8	Russian (ru) Операция «Нортвудс»		568
9	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		416
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע נורת'וודס		242

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Northwoods		427
2	French (fr) Opération Northwoods		95
3	German (de) Operation Northwoods		86
4	Italian (it) Operazione Northwoods		81
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Нортвудс»		39
6	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		28
7	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		22
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע נורת'וודס		22
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Northwoods		19
10	Japanese (ja) ノースウッズ作戦		18

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	Bulgarian (bg) Операция Нортуудс		1
2	English (en) Operation Northwoods		1
3	Arabic (ar) عملية نورثود		0
4	Catalan (ca) Operació Northwoods		0
5	Czech (cs) Operace Northwoods		0
6	Danish (da) Operation Northwoods		0
7	German (de) Operation Northwoods		0
8	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Νόρθγουντς		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Operaco Northwoods		0
10	Spanish (es) Operación Northwoods		0

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

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