Smiling Buddha

Quality:

Smiling Buddha - 1974 India's first successful nuclear test. Article “Smiling Buddha” in English Wikipedia has 62.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 50 references and 12 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Smiling Buddha”, its content was written by 308 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 583 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 613 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1257 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1527 in November 2001
• Global: #1658 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2921 in October 2018
• Global: #9243 in October 2018

There are 22 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	Chinese (zh) 波卡蘭-I		67.9992
2	English (en) Smiling Buddha		62.5123
3	Catalan (ca) Smiling Buddha		58.2848
4	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Усміхнений Будда»		43.5447
5	Tamil (ta) சிரிக்கும் புத்தர்		29.9634
6	Arabic (ar) بوذا المبتسم		28.3483
7	German (de) Operation Smiling Buddha		26.336
8	Japanese (ja) インドの核実験 (1974年)		23.9274
9	Thai (th) พุทธะแย้มสรวล		22.7411
10	Italian (it) Smiling Buddha		22.0172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smiling Buddha		4 661 506
2	Japanese (ja) インドの核実験 (1974年)		210 022
3	German (de) Operation Smiling Buddha		94 450
4	Hindi (hi) मुस्कुराते बुद्ध		91 431
5	Russian (ru) Улыбающийся Будда		78 858
6	Chinese (zh) 波卡蘭-I		75 154
7	Spanish (es) Smiling Buddha		67 676
8	Italian (it) Smiling Buddha		46 302
9	Tamil (ta) சிரிக்கும் புத்தர்		32 288
10	French (fr) Bouddha souriant		32 015

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) Smiling Buddha		11 223
2	Japanese (ja) インドの核実験 (1974年)		523
3	Russian (ru) Улыбающийся Будда		491
4	Chinese (zh) 波卡蘭-I		488
5	Persian (fa) عملیات بودای خندان		481
6	Hindi (hi) मुस्कुराते बुद्ध		241
7	German (de) Operation Smiling Buddha		196
8	French (fr) Bouddha souriant		149
9	Italian (it) Smiling Buddha		106
10	Spanish (es) Smiling Buddha		86

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smiling Buddha		308
2	German (de) Operation Smiling Buddha		37
3	French (fr) Bouddha souriant		33
4	Hindi (hi) मुस्कुराते बुद्ध		24
5	Japanese (ja) インドの核実験 (1974年)		24
6	Spanish (es) Smiling Buddha		21
7	Chinese (zh) 波卡蘭-I		21
8	Finnish (fi) Hymyilevä Buddha		20
9	Italian (it) Smiling Buddha		16
10	Dutch (nl) Smiling Buddha		12

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	Catalan (ca) Smiling Buddha		2
2	German (de) Operation Smiling Buddha		1
3	French (fr) Bouddha souriant		1
4	Korean (ko) 미소짓는 부처		1
5	Tamil (ta) சிரிக்கும் புத்தர்		1
6	Arabic (ar) بوذا المبتسم		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Усмихнатия Буда		0
8	English (en) Smiling Buddha		0
9	Spanish (es) Smiling Buddha		0
10	Persian (fa) عملیات بودای خندان		0

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

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