Operation Overlord

Quality:

Operation Overlord - 1944 successful Allied invasion of Nazi-held western Europe in World War II. This event is the 89^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 53^rd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Overlord” in Simple English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.8 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2587^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1379^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 53^rd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3415^th most popular in all topics.

The 2080^th most popular in AI.

The 89^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3073^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5924^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Operation Overlord”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1379^th place) and edited by 4967 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2080^th place).

Operation Overlord is on the 53^rd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 89^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 103 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23379 times in all languages (7037^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #35 in June 2008
• Global: #36 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #120 in May 2015
• Global: #172 in June 2014

There are 45 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) Operation Overlord		100
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Normandía		100
3	Dutch (nl) Operatie Overlord		100
4	Chinese (zh) 霸王行动		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Operação Overlord		100
6	Norwegian (no) Invasjonen i Normandie		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến dịch Overlord (1944)		100
8	Catalan (ca) Operació Overlord		100
9	Korean (ko) 오버로드 작전		100
10	Japanese (ja) ノルマンディーの戦い		96.7742

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Overlord		22 975 912
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Normandía		7 384 920
3	German (de) Operation Overlord		4 643 513
4	French (fr) Bataille de Normandie		2 604 455
5	Russian (ru) Нормандская операция		2 422 976
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Overlord		2 038 029
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Overlord		1 468 131
8	Portuguese (pt) Operação Overlord		1 016 502
9	Chinese (zh) 霸王行动		973 181
10	Czech (cs) Operace Overlord		822 103

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) Operation Overlord		115 288
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Normandía		29 761
3	German (de) Operation Overlord		25 261
4	Russian (ru) Нормандская операция		12 335
5	French (fr) Bataille de Normandie		9 587
6	Dutch (nl) Operatie Overlord		6 971
7	Chinese (zh) 霸王行动		6 179
8	Polish (pl) Operacja Overlord		4 486
9	Italian (it) Operazione Overlord		3 344
10	Czech (cs) Operace Overlord		2 910

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Overlord		1 928
2	German (de) Operation Overlord		513
3	French (fr) Bataille de Normandie		453
4	Dutch (nl) Operatie Overlord		325
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Normandía		276
6	Russian (ru) Нормандская операция		194
7	Norwegian (no) Invasjonen i Normandie		157
8	Polish (pl) Operacja Overlord		110
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Overlord		84
10	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Оверлорд»		75

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) Operation Overlord		10
2	French (fr) Bataille de Normandie		3
3	Czech (cs) Operace Overlord		2
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Normandía		2
5	Russian (ru) Нормандская операция		2
6	Danish (da) Operation Overlord		1
7	Malay (ms) Operasi Overlord		1
8	Dutch (nl) Operatie Overlord		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Overlord		1
10	Slovak (sk) Operácia Overlord		1

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

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