Sri Lankan Civil War

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Sri Lankan Civil War - armed conflict in Sri Lanka (1983–2009) between the government and the separatist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This event is the 608^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 420^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sri Lankan Civil War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.45 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:

The 420^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 608^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7733^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sri Lankan Civil War”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sri Lankan Civil War is on the 420^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 608^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5179 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #290 in July 2023
• Global: #95 in May 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4474 in April 2019
• Global: #1801 in May 2009

There are 39 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) Sri Lankan civil war		94.3716
2	Portuguese (pt) Guerra civil do Sri Lanka		75.8084
3	Chinese (zh) 斯里兰卡内战		67.2236
4	German (de) Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka		62.0753
5	French (fr) Guerre civile du Sri Lanka		58.884
6	Czech (cs) Občanská válka na Srí Lance		55.1282
7	Vietnamese (vi) Nội chiến Sri Lanka		52.9988
8	Tamil (ta) ஈழப் போர்		51.9561
9	Malay (ms) Perang Saudara Sri Lanka		51.4712
10	Esperanto (eo) Srilanka Enlanda Milito		45.1156

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sri Lankan civil war		8 132 699
2	German (de) Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka		701 628
3	French (fr) Guerre civile du Sri Lanka		572 809
4	Russian (ru) Гражданская война на Шри-Ланке		343 355
5	Japanese (ja) スリランカ内戦		325 814
6	Spanish (es) Guerra civil de Sri Lanka		196 048
7	Hindi (hi) श्रीलंकाई गृहयुद्ध का इतिहास		190 974
8	Chinese (zh) 斯里兰卡内战		169 060
9	Italian (it) Guerra civile in Sri Lanka		152 754
10	Tamil (ta) ஈழப் போர்		126 406

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) Sri Lankan civil war		41 765
2	French (fr) Guerre civile du Sri Lanka		2 363
3	German (de) Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka		2 332
4	Japanese (ja) スリランカ内戦		1 609
5	Russian (ru) Гражданская война на Шри-Ланке		1 425
6	Chinese (zh) 斯里兰卡内战		956
7	Spanish (es) Guerra civil de Sri Lanka		879
8	Simple English (simple) Sri Lankan Civil War		848
9	Italian (it) Guerra civile in Sri Lanka		760
10	Tamil (ta) ஈழப் போர்		643

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sri Lankan civil war		995
2	German (de) Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka		177
3	French (fr) Guerre civile du Sri Lanka		154
4	Norwegian (no) Borgerkrigen på Sri Lanka		83
5	Italian (it) Guerra civile in Sri Lanka		79
6	Dutch (nl) Sri Lankaanse Burgeroorlog		71
7	Russian (ru) Гражданская война на Шри-Ланке		51
8	Chinese (zh) 斯里兰卡内战		47
9	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים בסרי לנקה		46
10	Tamil (ta) ஈழப் போர்		45

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) Sri Lankan civil war		5
2	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים בסרי לנקה		1
3	Arabic (ar) الحرب الأهلية السريلانكية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Şri-Lankada vətəndaş müharibəsi		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Гражданска война в Шри Ланка		0
6	Catalan (ca) Guerra Civil de Sri Lanka		0
7	Czech (cs) Občanská válka na Srí Lance		0
8	Danish (da) Borgerkrigen i Sri Lanka		0
9	German (de) Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Srilanka Enlanda Milito		0

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

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