Sinking of HMAS Sydney

Quality:

Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran - 1941 naval battle during World War II. Article “Sinking of HMAS Sydney” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 445 references and 24 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.

Since the creation of article “Sinking of HMAS Sydney”, its content was written by 235 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 390 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 206 times in English Wikipedia and cited 309 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1409 in March 2008
• Global: #7145 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3093 in March 2008
• Global: #7038 in March 2008

There are 8 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) Sinking of HMAS Sydney		100
2	Russian (ru) Бой между «Сиднеем» и «Кормораном»		96.9231
3	Polish (pl) Bitwa HMAS Sydney z HSK Kormoran		48.8383
4	French (fr) Bataille entre le Sydney et le Kormoran		28.2547
5	Malay (ms) Pertempuran antara HMAS Sydney dan HSK Kormoran		16.8856
6	Arabic (ar) معركة الطراد المساعد كورموران والطراد سيدني		14.6445
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bitka između Sydneyja i Kormorana		13.1811
8	Azerbaijani (az) Kormoran və Sidney HMAS kreyserləri arasında dəniz döyüşü		3.8487

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sinking of HMAS Sydney		1 034 717
2	Polish (pl) Bitwa HMAS Sydney z HSK Kormoran		99 908
3	Russian (ru) Бой между «Сиднеем» и «Кормораном»		60 871
4	French (fr) Bataille entre le Sydney et le Kormoran		43 071
5	Arabic (ar) معركة الطراد المساعد كورموران والطراد سيدني		3 809
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bitka između Sydneyja i Kormorana		2 084
7	Malay (ms) Pertempuran antara HMAS Sydney dan HSK Kormoran		1 429
8	Azerbaijani (az) Kormoran və Sidney HMAS kreyserləri arasında dəniz döyüşü		854

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) Sinking of HMAS Sydney		3 414
2	Russian (ru) Бой между «Сиднеем» и «Кормораном»		231
3	French (fr) Bataille entre le Sydney et le Kormoran		160
4	Polish (pl) Bitwa HMAS Sydney z HSK Kormoran		106
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kormoran və Sidney HMAS kreyserləri arasında dəniz döyüşü		32
6	Malay (ms) Pertempuran antara HMAS Sydney dan HSK Kormoran		8
7	Arabic (ar) معركة الطراد المساعد كورموران والطراد سيدني		7
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bitka između Sydneyja i Kormorana		6

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sinking of HMAS Sydney		235
2	Polish (pl) Bitwa HMAS Sydney z HSK Kormoran		62
3	French (fr) Bataille entre le Sydney et le Kormoran		44
4	Russian (ru) Бой между «Сиднеем» и «Кормораном»		30
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kormoran və Sidney HMAS kreyserləri arasında dəniz döyüşü		9
6	Arabic (ar) معركة الطراد المساعد كورموران والطراد سيدني		4
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bitka između Sydneyja i Kormorana		4
8	Malay (ms) Pertempuran antara HMAS Sydney dan HSK Kormoran		2

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	Russian (ru) Бой между «Сиднеем» и «Кормораном»		1
2	Arabic (ar) معركة الطراد المساعد كورموران والطراد سيدني		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kormoran və Sidney HMAS kreyserləri arasında dəniz döyüşü		0
4	English (en) Sinking of HMAS Sydney		0
5	French (fr) Bataille entre le Sydney et le Kormoran		0
6	Malay (ms) Pertempuran antara HMAS Sydney dan HSK Kormoran		0
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa HMAS Sydney z HSK Kormoran		0
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bitka između Sydneyja i Kormorana		0

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

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