Operation Barbarossa

Quality:

Operation Barbarossa - invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nazi German-led Axis powers in Europe. This event is the 85^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 183^rd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Barbarossa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 2 sections.

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:

The 183^rd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3048^th most popular in all topics.

The 1340^th most popular in AI.

The 85^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7960^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2404^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2135^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Operation Barbarossa”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 5827 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1340^th place).

Operation Barbarossa is on the 183^rd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 85^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 90 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 40492 times in all languages (4173^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #479 in December 2014
• Global: #69 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2978 in January 2015
• Global: #940 in March 2022

There are 51 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) Operation Barbarossa		100
2	Persian (fa) عملیات بارباروسا		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Operação Barbarossa		100
4	Urdu (ur) آپریشن باربروسا		100
5	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		98.8609
6	Galician (gl) Operación Barbarossa		97.3333
7	Hungarian (hu) Barbarossa hadművelet		95.8961
8	Arabic (ar) عملية بربروسا		92.1739
9	Turkish (tr) Barbarossa Harekâtı		91.5848
10	Norwegian (no) Operasjon Barbarossa		89.8179

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Barbarossa		21 448 567
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		5 987 657
3	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		3 893 156
4	Polish (pl) Operacja Barbarossa		3 091 237
5	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		2 837 051
6	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		2 602 712
7	Japanese (ja) バルバロッサ作戦		2 089 516
8	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		2 042 448
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Barbarossa		1 071 175
10	Chinese (zh) 巴巴羅薩行動		970 117

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 Barbarossa		112 056
2	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		21 078
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		20 220
4	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		12 181
5	Japanese (ja) バルバロッサ作戦		10 619
6	Polish (pl) Operacja Barbarossa		10 133
7	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		9 782
8	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		8 893
9	Chinese (zh) 巴巴羅薩行動		5 820
10	Persian (fa) عملیات بارباروسا		5 420

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Barbarossa		1 830
2	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		366
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		343
4	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		280
5	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		237
6	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		208
7	Polish (pl) Operacja Barbarossa		194
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע ברברוסה		185
9	Dutch (nl) Operatie Barbarossa		179
10	Swedish (sv) Operation Barbarossa		150

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 Barbarossa		10
2	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		6
3	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		3
4	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		3
5	Turkish (tr) Barbarossa Harekâtı		3
6	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		2
7	Persian (fa) عملیات بارباروسا		2
8	Galician (gl) Operación Barbarossa		2
9	Romanian (ro) Operațiunea Barbarossa		2
10	Arabic (ar) عملية بربروسا		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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