World War II

Quality:

World War II - 1939–1945 global conflict. On English Wikipedia article about World War II recently has been very popular. Article “World War II” in English Wikipedia has 96.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 484 references and 38 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 13^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 10^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6^th most popular in all topics.

The 5^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 68^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 728^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 46^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 224^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “World War II” was edited by 30 authors in English Wikipedia (728^th place) and written by 123 authors in all languages (224^th place).

Since the creation of article “World War II”, its content was written by 5187 registered users of English Wikipedia (10^th place) and edited by 21225 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5^th place).

The article is cited 223335 times in English Wikipedia (35^th place) and cited 1236027 times in all languages (61^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3 in March 2006
• Global: #1 in April 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7 in October 2013
• Global: #5 in October 2013

There are 55 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	Persian (fa) جنگ جهانی دوم		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		100
3	Dutch (nl) Tweede Wereldoorlog		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Második világháború		100
5	Thai (th) สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง		100
6	Bulgarian (bg) Втора световна война		100
7	Norwegian (no) Andre verdenskrig		100
8	Tamil (ta) இரண்டாம் உலகப் போர்		100
9	Galician (gl) Segunda guerra mundial		100
10	Korean (ko) 제2차 세계 대전		99.2504

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World War II		204 242 297
2	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		76 330 528
3	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		31 632 923
4	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		30 467 511
5	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		24 093 047
6	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		22 289 049
7	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		21 140 756
8	Italian (it) Seconda guerra mondiale		17 906 214
9	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		16 168 625
10	Arabic (ar) الحرب العالمية الثانية		12 216 743

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) World War II		1 136 137
2	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		200 395
3	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		107 797
4	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		102 302
5	Persian (fa) جنگ جهانی دوم		80 182
6	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		68 633
7	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		67 213
8	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		59 806
9	Arabic (ar) الحرب العالمية الثانية		55 717
10	Chinese (zh) 第二次世界大战		55 322

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World War II		5 187
2	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		1 439
3	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		1 196
4	Italian (it) Seconda guerra mondiale		889
5	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		789
6	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		777
7	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		712
8	Chinese (zh) 第二次世界大战		661
9	Swedish (sv) Andra världskriget		659
10	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		564

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	English (en) World War II		30
2	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		12
3	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		9
4	Croatian (hr) Drugi svjetski rat		7
5	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		6
6	Norwegian (no) Andre verdenskrig		6
7	Bulgarian (bg) Втора световна война		5
8	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		5
9	Arabic (ar) الحرب العالمية الثانية		4
10	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		4

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

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