Operation Torch

Operation Torch - 1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II. This event is the 719^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 676^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Torch” in English Wikipedia has 86.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 84 references and 22 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Operation Torch” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Torch”, its content was written by 545 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2088 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Torch is on the 676^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 719^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3111 times in English Wikipedia (9346^th place) and cited 13570 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2813 in October 2002
• Global: #3205 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17483 in April 2009
• Global: #22368 in November 2017

There are 41 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	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		93.9616
2	English (en) Operation Torch		86.6785
3	French (fr) Opération Torch		83.6867
4	German (de) Operation Torch		79.8539
5	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		71.2177
6	Serbian (sr) Операција Бакља		43.1358
7	Portuguese (pt) Operação Tocha		42.2021
8	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		41.3327
9	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		38.3938
10	Greek (el) Επιχείρηση Πυρσός		36.3744

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Torch" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Torch		5 460 876
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		909 318
3	German (de) Operation Torch		540 886
4	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		472 325
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		390 748
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		358 154
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		355 387
8	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		260 872
9	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		176 677
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		114 212

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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 "Operation Torch" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Torch		30 088
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		3 951
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		2 279
4	German (de) Operation Torch		1 899
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		1 746
6	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		1 436
7	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		1 421
8	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		1 170
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		967
10	Turkish (tr) Meşale Harekâtı		410

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Torch		545
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		324
3	German (de) Operation Torch		144
4	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		97
5	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		75
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		68
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		63
8	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		60
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		59
10	Norwegian (no) Operasjon Torch		58

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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 "Operation Torch" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Torch		3
2	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Факел“		1
3	Finnish (fi) Operaatio Soihtu		1
4	French (fr) Opération Torch		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Смолоскип»		1
6	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		1
7	Arabic (ar) عملية الشعلة		0
8	Catalan (ca) Operació Torxa		0
9	Czech (cs) Operace Torch		0
10	Danish (da) Operation Torch		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 "Operation Torch" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Operation Torch		3 111
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		1 882
3	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		865
4	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Смолоскип»		751
5	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		516
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến dịch Bó đuốc		454
7	German (de) Operation Torch		452
8	Portuguese (pt) Operação Tocha		386
9	Korean (ko) 횃불 작전		369
10	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		307

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عملية الشعلة
bg	Bulgarian Операция „Факел“
ca	Catalan Operació Torxa
cs	Czech Operace Torch
da	Danish Operation Torch
de	German Operation Torch
el	Greek Επιχείρηση Πυρσός
en	English Operation Torch
eo	Esperanto Operaco Torĉo
es	Spanish Operación Torch
eu	Basque Zuzi Operazioa
fa	Persian عملیات تورچ
fi	Finnish Operaatio Soihtu
fr	French Opération Torch
gl	Galician Operación Torch
he	Hebrew מבצע לפיד
hr	Croatian Operacija Baklja
hu	Hungarian Torch hadművelet
id	Indonesian Operasi Torch
it	Italian Operazione Torch
ja	Japanese トーチ作戦
ka	Georgian ოპერაცია ტორჩი
ko	Korean 횃불 작전
ms	Malay Operasi Torch
nl	Dutch Operatie Torch
no	Norwegian Operasjon Torch
pl	Polish Operacja Torch
pt	Portuguese Operação Tocha
ro	Romanian Operațiunea Torța
ru	Russian Операция «Факел»
sh	Serbo-Croatian Operacija Torch
sk	Slovak Operácia Torch
sl	Slovenian Operacija Bakla
sr	Serbian Операција Бакља
sv	Swedish Operation Torch
ta	Tamil டார்ச் நடவடிக்கை
th	Thai ปฏิบัติการคบเพลิง
tr	Turkish Meşale Harekâtı
uk	Ukrainian Операція «Смолоскип»
vi	Vietnamese Chiến dịch Bó đuốc
zh	Chinese 火炬行動

Best Rank

English: #17483 04.2009

Global: #22368 11.2017

Best Rank

English: #2813 10.2002

Global: #3205 10.2013

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