Obrona Westerplatte

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Battle of Westerplatte - first battle in the Invasion of Poland, the beginning of the Second World War. This event is the 1796^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 73^rd most popular event in Polish Wikipedia. Article “Obrona Westerplatte” in Polish Wikipedia has 72.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 71 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.81 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Polish Wikipedia:

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The 2604^th most popular in Polish Wikipedia.

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The 3048^th most editable in Polish Wikipedia.

The 73^rd most popular in events in Polish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1796^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Polish Wikipedia:

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The 4531^st most popular in Polish Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Obrona Westerplatte”, its content was written by 144 registered users of Polish Wikipedia (3048^th place) and edited by 892 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Westerplatte is on the 73^rd place in local ranking of events in Polish Wikipedia and on the 1796^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 315 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 1318 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #54 in September 2013
• Global: #9691 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #59 in September 2015
• Global: #15681 in September 2019

There are 32 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) Battle of Westerplatte		94.2857
2	Czech (cs) Bitva o Westerplatte		78.622
3	Ukrainian (uk) Оборона Вестерплатте		78.4559
4	Greek (el) Μάχη του Βέστερπλαττε		76.4618
5	Italian (it) Battaglia della Westerplatte		74.4799
6	Polish (pl) Obrona Westerplatte		72.3798
7	Belarusian (be) Абарона Вестэрплятэ		60.544
8	Chinese (zh) 西盤半島戰役		55.3382
9	Hungarian (hu) Westerplattei csata		55.1364
10	German (de) Kampf um die Westerplatte		53.8594

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Polish (pl) Obrona Westerplatte		1 807 569
2	English (en) Battle of Westerplatte		1 174 531
3	Russian (ru) Оборона Вестерплатте		347 258
4	German (de) Kampf um die Westerplatte		317 284
5	Czech (cs) Bitva o Westerplatte		98 797
6	French (fr) Bataille de Westerplatte		75 161
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Westerplatte		71 130
8	Chinese (zh) 西盤半島戰役		56 647
9	Italian (it) Battaglia della Westerplatte		37 750
10	Ukrainian (uk) Оборона Вестерплатте		29 955

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) Battle of Westerplatte		7 190
2	Polish (pl) Obrona Westerplatte		4 244
3	German (de) Kampf um die Westerplatte		2 329
4	Russian (ru) Оборона Вестерплатте		1 375
5	Czech (cs) Bitva o Westerplatte		1 355
6	French (fr) Bataille de Westerplatte		314
7	Italian (it) Battaglia della Westerplatte		251
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Westerplatte		249
9	Chinese (zh) 西盤半島戰役		243
10	Slovak (sk) Bitka pri Westerplatte		172

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Westerplatte		204
2	Polish (pl) Obrona Westerplatte		144
3	Russian (ru) Оборона Вестерплатте		88
4	Italian (it) Battaglia della Westerplatte		54
5	French (fr) Bataille de Westerplatte		53
6	German (de) Kampf um die Westerplatte		48
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de Westerplatte		39
8	Czech (cs) Bitva o Westerplatte		31
9	Finnish (fi) Westerplatten taistelu		21
10	Norwegian (no) Slaget om Westerplatte		21

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) Battle of Westerplatte		1
2	Finnish (fi) Westerplatten taistelu		1
3	Russian (ru) Оборона Вестерплатте		1
4	Arabic (ar) معركة ويستربلات		0
5	Belarusian (be) Абарона Вестэрплятэ		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Битка за Вестерплате		0
7	Czech (cs) Bitva o Westerplatte		0
8	German (de) Kampf um die Westerplatte		0
9	Greek (el) Μάχη του Βέστερπλαττε		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Sieĝo de Westerplatte		0

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

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