Operation Searchlight

Operation Searchlight - Pakistani military operation in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. This event is the 4112^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Operation Searchlight” in English Wikipedia has 85.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 253 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.49 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Operation Searchlight” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Searchlight”, its content was written by 284 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Searchlight is on the 4112^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 435 times in English Wikipedia and cited 704 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7509 in December 2021
• Global: #28625 in December 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #23451 in September 2018
• Global: #51746 in September 2018

There are 11 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	English (en) Operation Searchlight		85.416
2	Chinese (zh) 探照燈行動		69.7912
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		28.5828
4	Urdu (ur) آپریشن سرچ لائٹ		24.063
5	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		24.0155
6	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		15.4932
7	Azerbaijani (az) Projektor əməliyyatı		12.2639
8	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		10.2819
9	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		10.0292
10	Arabic (ar) عملية مناورة		4.7736

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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 Searchlight" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Searchlight		2 045 979
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		54 227
3	Chinese (zh) 探照燈行動		25 471
4	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		11 627
5	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		8 905
6	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		5 968
7	Serbian (sr) Operacija reflektor		3 094
8	Urdu (ur) آپریشن سرچ لائٹ		3 012
9	Arabic (ar) عملية مناورة		2 919
10	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		842

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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 Searchlight" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Searchlight		5 842
2	Chinese (zh) 探照燈行動		302
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		180
4	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		52
5	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		42
6	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		33
7	Urdu (ur) آپریشن سرچ لائٹ		14
8	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		9
9	Serbian (sr) Operacija reflektor		8
10	Azerbaijani (az) Projektor əməliyyatı		6

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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 Searchlight" 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 Searchlight		284
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		16
3	Arabic (ar) عملية مناورة		15
4	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		14
5	Chinese (zh) 探照燈行動		10
6	Azerbaijani (az) Projektor əməliyyatı		9
7	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		9
8	Serbian (sr) Operacija reflektor		9
9	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		3
10	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		3

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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 Searchlight" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Searchlight		2
2	Arabic (ar) عملية مناورة		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Projektor əməliyyatı		0
4	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		0
5	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		0
6	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		0
7	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		0
8	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		0
9	Serbian (sr) Operacija reflektor		0
10	Urdu (ur) آپریشن سرچ لائٹ		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 Searchlight" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Operation Searchlight		435
2	French (fr) Opération Searchlight		92
3	Chinese (zh) 探照燈行動		68
4	Urdu (ur) آپریشن سرچ لائٹ		49
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Прожектор»		27
6	Arabic (ar) عملية مناورة		9
7	Indonesian (id) Operasi Searchlight		8
8	Simple English (simple) Operation Searchlight		7
9	Korean (ko) 서치라이트 작전		6
10	Serbian (sr) Operacija reflektor		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عملية مناورة
az	Azerbaijani Projektor əməliyyatı
en	English Operation Searchlight
fr	French Opération Searchlight
id	Indonesian Operasi Searchlight
ko	Korean 서치라이트 작전
ru	Russian Операция «Прожектор»
simple	Simple English Operation Searchlight
sr	Serbian Operacija reflektor
ur	Urdu آپریشن سرچ لائٹ
zh	Chinese 探照燈行動

Best Rank

English: #23451 09.2018

Global: #51746 09.2018

Best Rank

English: #7509 12.2021

Global: #28625 12.2021

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