Phoney War

Quality:

Phoney War - eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front. Article “Phoney War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Phoney War”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2117 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 44 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10836 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #270 in March 2011
• Global: #1604 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2884 in January 2015
• Global: #4663 in July 2017

There are 47 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	German (de) Sitzkrieg		69.3853
2	English (en) Phoney War		68.7117
3	Portuguese (pt) Guerra de Mentira		55.4195
4	Polish (pl) Dziwna wojna		47.2423
5	Russian (ru) Странная война		43.738
6	Turkish (tr) Tuhaf Savaş		38.0191
7	Ukrainian (uk) Дивна війна		34.7313
8	Dutch (nl) Schemeroorlog		34.7
9	Korean (ko) 가짜 전쟁		32.7455
10	Italian (it) Strana guerra		32.1291

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phoney War		5 064 496
2	Russian (ru) Странная война		1 765 481
3	French (fr) Drôle de guerre		1 106 339
4	Polish (pl) Dziwna wojna		925 158
5	German (de) Sitzkrieg		682 361
6	Spanish (es) Guerra de broma		480 261
7	Japanese (ja) まやかし戦争		414 837
8	Italian (it) Strana guerra		360 312
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дивна війна		307 080
10	Chinese (zh) 假戰		173 240

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) Phoney War		18 799
2	French (fr) Drôle de guerre		5 769
3	Russian (ru) Странная война		3 804
4	German (de) Sitzkrieg		2 553
5	Japanese (ja) まやかし戦争		1 716
6	Polish (pl) Dziwna wojna		1 645
7	Spanish (es) Guerra de broma		1 234
8	Italian (it) Strana guerra		1 174
9	Chinese (zh) 假戰		593
10	Dutch (nl) Schemeroorlog		403

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phoney War		498
2	French (fr) Drôle de guerre		193
3	German (de) Sitzkrieg		168
4	Russian (ru) Странная война		151
5	Italian (it) Strana guerra		105
6	Polish (pl) Dziwna wojna		95
7	Dutch (nl) Schemeroorlog		85
8	Ukrainian (uk) Дивна війна		62
9	Hungarian (hu) Furcsa háború		59
10	Hebrew (he) המלחמה המדומה		54

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	Azerbaijani (az) Qəribə müharibə		2
2	Armenian (hy) Տարօրինակ պատերազմ		2
3	Russian (ru) Странная война		2
4	Arabic (ar) الحرب الزائفة		1
5	Belarusian (be) Дзіўная вайна		1
6	Catalan (ca) Guerra de Broma		1
7	Danish (da) Spøgelseskrigen		1
8	German (de) Sitzkrieg		1
9	English (en) Phoney War		1
10	French (fr) Drôle de guerre		1

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

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