Battle of Wake Island

Battle of Wake Island - 1941 battle of World War II. This event is the 1740^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 974^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Wake Island” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Battle of Wake Island”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 841 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Battle of Wake Island is on the 974^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1740^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3746 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1916 in August 2018
• Global: #22225 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14235 in December 2016
• Global: #25464 in January 2015

There are 26 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) Battle of Wake Island		94.2702
2	Korean (ko) 웨이크섬 전투		93.7436
3	Japanese (ja) ウェーク島の戦い		86.3297
4	Italian (it) Battaglia dell'Isola di Wake		84.1033
5	Chinese (zh) 威克島戰役		66.3164
6	Simple English (simple) Battle of Wake Island		42.3526
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		40.797
8	Hungarian (hu) Wake-szigeti csata		38.2415
9	Hebrew (he) קרב האי וייק		36.7166
10	Norwegian (no) Slaget ved Wake Island		36.6756

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Battle of Wake Island" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Wake Island		3 077 502
2	Japanese (ja) ウェーク島の戦い		737 306
3	German (de) Schlacht um Wake		265 418
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de la isla de Wake		152 824
5	Russian (ru) Битва за остров Уэйк		127 412
6	French (fr) Bataille de l'atoll de Wake		85 699
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		84 852
8	Italian (it) Battaglia dell'Isola di Wake		81 899
9	Chinese (zh) 威克島戰役		33 422
10	Hebrew (he) קרב האי וייק		21 230

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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 "Battle of Wake Island" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Wake Island		11 836
2	Japanese (ja) ウェーク島の戦い		1 779
3	German (de) Schlacht um Wake		753
4	French (fr) Bataille de l'atoll de Wake		402
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de la isla de Wake		401
6	Russian (ru) Битва за остров Уэйк		401
7	Italian (it) Battaglia dell'Isola di Wake		314
8	Chinese (zh) 威克島戰役		309
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		187
10	Hebrew (he) קרב האי וייק		83

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

Language versions of the article "Battle of Wake Island" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Wake Island		372
2	German (de) Schlacht um Wake		70
3	Japanese (ja) ウェーク島の戦い		53
4	Italian (it) Battaglia dell'Isola di Wake		48
5	Russian (ru) Битва за остров Уэйк		45
6	French (fr) Bataille de l'atoll de Wake		36
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de la isla de Wake		31
8	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		31
9	Hebrew (he) קרב האי וייק		23
10	Catalan (ca) Batalla de l'illa de Wake		16

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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 "Battle of Wake Island" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Wake Island		5
2	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		2
3	Catalan (ca) Batalla de l'illa de Wake		1
4	Arabic (ar) معركة جزيرة ويك		0
5	Danish (da) Slaget om Wake		0
6	German (de) Schlacht um Wake		0
7	Spanish (es) Batalla de la isla de Wake		0
8	Persian (fa) نبرد جزیره ویک		0
9	Finnish (fi) Waken taistelu		0
10	French (fr) Bataille de l'atoll de Wake		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 "Battle of Wake Island" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Battle of Wake Island		1 371
2	Ukrainian (uk) Битва за острів Вейк		452
3	Japanese (ja) ウェーク島の戦い		315
4	Chinese (zh) 威克島戰役		304
5	Vietnamese (vi) Trận đảo Wake		266
6	French (fr) Bataille de l'atoll de Wake		239
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa o wyspę Wake		180
8	Russian (ru) Битва за остров Уэйк		89
9	Spanish (es) Batalla de la isla de Wake		79
10	German (de) Schlacht um Wake		74

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic معركة جزيرة ويك
ca	Catalan Batalla de l'illa de Wake
da	Danish Slaget om Wake
de	German Schlacht um Wake
en	English Battle of Wake Island
es	Spanish Batalla de la isla de Wake
fa	Persian نبرد جزیره ویک
fi	Finnish Waken taistelu
fr	French Bataille de l'atoll de Wake
he	Hebrew קרב האי וייק
hu	Hungarian Wake-szigeti csata
id	Indonesian Pertempuran Pulau Wake
it	Italian Battaglia dell'Isola di Wake
ja	Japanese ウェーク島の戦い
ko	Korean 웨이크섬 전투
no	Norwegian Slaget ved Wake Island
pl	Polish Bitwa o wyspę Wake
pt	Portuguese Batalha da Ilha Wake
ru	Russian Битва за остров Уэйк
simple	Simple English Battle of Wake Island
sr	Serbian Битка за острво Вејк
sv	Swedish Slaget om Wake Island
th	Thai ยุทธการที่เกาะเวก
uk	Ukrainian Битва за острів Вейк
vi	Vietnamese Trận đảo Wake
zh	Chinese 威克島戰役

Best Rank

Simple English: #14235 12.2016

Global: #25464 01.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #1916 08.2018

Global: #22225 12.2024

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