Operation Torch

Operation Torch - 1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II. This event is the 741^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 698^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Torch” in English Wikipedia has 86.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 84 references and 22 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Operation Torch” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Torch”, its content was written by 560 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Torch is on the 698^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 741^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3252 times in English Wikipedia (9643^rd place) and cited 14317 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2804 in October 2002
• Global: #3204 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17580 in April 2009
• Global: #19934 in June 2026

There are 42 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	Catalan (ca) Operació Torxa		93.9455
2	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		93.9307
3	English (en) Operation Torch		86.3497
4	German (de) Operation Torch		84.2578
5	French (fr) Opération Torch		83.3775
6	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		69.3815
7	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		49.6328
8	Serbian (sr) Операција Бакља		43.6003
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		41.3896
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Tocha		40.9407

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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		5 823 962
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		975 694
3	German (de) Operation Torch		565 986
4	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		491 424
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		410 749
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		391 250
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		371 445
8	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		276 272
9	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		188 753
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		119 540

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Torch		35 147
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		13 405
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		2 043
4	German (de) Operation Torch		1 840
5	Spanish (es) Operación Torch		1 381
6	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		1 354
7	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		1 294
8	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		1 123
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		1 097
10	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		436

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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		560
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		331
3	German (de) Operation Torch		153
4	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		97
5	Hebrew (he) מבצע לפיד		79
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Torch		68
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Факел»		65
8	Hungarian (hu) Torch hadművelet		61
9	Polish (pl) Operacja Torch		61
10	Danish (da) Operation Torch		49

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Operació Torxa		3
2	German (de) Operation Torch		2
3	Japanese (ja) トーチ作戦		2
4	Serbian (sr) Операција Бакља		2
5	Arabic (ar) عملية الشعلة		1
6	English (en) Operation Torch		1
7	French (fr) Opération Torch		1
8	Simple English (simple) Operation Torch		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Факел“		0
10	Czech (cs) Operace 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		3 252
2	French (fr) Opération Torch		1 952
3	Italian (it) Operazione Torch		897
4	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Смолоскип»		762
5	Chinese (zh) 火炬行動		528
6	German (de) Operation Torch		487
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến dịch Bó đuốc		466
8	Portuguese (pt) Operação Tocha		461
9	Korean (ko) 횃불 작전		423
10	Persian (fa) عملیات تورچ		345

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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
simple	Simple English Operation 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: #17580 04.2009

Global: #19934 06.2026

Best Rank

English: #2804 10.2002

Global: #3204 10.2013

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