Defence in depth

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Defence in depth

Quality:

Defence in depth - military strategy where a defender delays and spreads out an attacker's advance. Article “Defence in depth” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 5 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 8835th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
The 2513th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Defence in depth” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2513th place) and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Defence in depth”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 363 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1499 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #547 in December 2015
  • Global: #42171 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #6921 in May 2022
  • Global: #67867 in November 2009

There are 20 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
41.5113
2Chinese (zh)
縱深防禦
22.8609
3English (en)
Defence in depth
16.3587
4Portuguese (pt)
Defesa em profundidade
14.437
5Korean (ko)
종심방어
12.8272
6German (de)
Operationsart
11.7605
7Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
11.2616
8Ukrainian (uk)
Глибока оборона
10.4467
9Hebrew (he)
הגנה לעומק
10.0454
10Vietnamese (vi)
Phòng ngự chiều sâu
7.763
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Defence in depth" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defence in depth
1 283 436
2Japanese (ja)
縦深防御
276 917
3German (de)
Operationsart
134 445
4Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
103 090
5Chinese (zh)
縱深防禦
81 365
6French (fr)
Défense en profondeur
69 513
7Korean (ko)
종심방어
36 300
8Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
15 560
9Vietnamese (vi)
Phòng ngự chiều sâu
13 828
10Portuguese (pt)
Defesa em profundidade
11 067
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Defence in depth" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defence in depth
6 007
2Japanese (ja)
縦深防御
1 271
3Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
777
4Chinese (zh)
縱深防禦
555
5German (de)
Operationsart
396
6French (fr)
Défense en profondeur
260
7Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
164
8Korean (ko)
종심방어
145
9Ukrainian (uk)
Глибока оборона
86
10Vietnamese (vi)
Phòng ngự chiều sâu
57
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defence in depth
123
2German (de)
Operationsart
46
3French (fr)
Défense en profondeur
32
4Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
24
5Japanese (ja)
縦深防御
24
6Hebrew (he)
הגנה לעומק
20
7Chinese (zh)
縱深防禦
17
8Korean (ko)
종심방어
12
9Dutch (nl)
Diepteverdediging
12
10Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
2
2Persian (fa)
دفاع در عمق
1
3Turkish (tr)
Derinlemesine savunma
1
4Danish (da)
Forsvar i dybden
0
5German (de)
Operationsart
0
6English (en)
Defence in depth
0
7Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
0
8French (fr)
Défense en profondeur
0
9Hebrew (he)
הגנה לעומק
0
10Italian (it)
Difesa elastica
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Defence in depth
606
2French (fr)
Défense en profondeur
222
3Chinese (zh)
縱深防禦
132
4Ukrainian (uk)
Глибока оборона
104
5Turkish (tr)
Derinlemesine savunma
101
6German (de)
Operationsart
100
7Japanese (ja)
縦深防御
45
8Simple English (simple)
Defence in depth
42
9Spanish (es)
Defensa en profundidad
39
10Hebrew (he)
הגנה לעומק
24
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
daDanish
Forsvar i dybden
deGerman
Operationsart
enEnglish
Defence in depth
esSpanish
Defensa en profundidad
faPersian
دفاع در عمق
frFrench
Défense en profondeur
heHebrew
הגנה לעומק
itItalian
Difesa elastica
jaJapanese
縦深防御
koKorean
종심방어
msMalay
Pertahanan secara mendalam
nlDutch
Diepteverdediging
ptPortuguese
Defesa em profundidade
simpleSimple English
Defence in depth
slSlovenian
Globinska obramba
svSwedish
Försvar på djupet
trTurkish
Derinlemesine savunma
ukUkrainian
Глибока оборона
viVietnamese
Phòng ngự chiều sâu
zhChinese
縱深防禦

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6921
05.2022
Global:
#67867
11.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#547
12.2015
Global:
#42171
12.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Defence in depth from Wikipedia articles about Battle of Kursk, Deep operations, Battle of Moscow, List of military strategies and concepts and Letters from Iwo Jima. Whereas reading the article about Defence in depth people most often go to Wikipedia articles on AirLand Battle, Deep operations, Wikipedia article, Dragons teeth and Fulda Gap.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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