Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back - 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. This film is the 310^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 247^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 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:

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The 4667^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 247^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5993^rd most popular in all topics.

The 3014^th most popular in AI.

The 310^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6443^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3900^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4667^th place) and edited by 4451 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3014^th place).

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back is on the 247^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 310^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10251 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #238 in June 2006
• Global: #109 in December 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1911 in December 2015
• Global: #40 in December 2015

There are 49 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) The Empire Strikes Back		100
2	French (fr) Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque		100
3	Croatian (hr) Ratovi zvijezda V: Imperij uzvraća udarac		100
4	Chinese (zh) 星際大戰五部曲：帝國大反擊		95
5	Catalan (ca) Star Wars episodi V: L'Imperi contraataca		89.0826
6	Italian (it) L'Impero colpisce ancora		86.3158
7	Turkish (tr) Yıldız Savaşları: Bölüm V - İmparator		82.4231
8	Spanish (es) Star Wars: Episodio V - El Imperio contraataca		63.0894
9	Polish (pl) Gwiezdne wojny: część V – Imperium kontratakuje		52.5326
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back		48.2948

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Empire Strikes Back		20 235 053
2	German (de) Das Imperium schlägt zurück		2 628 186
3	Russian (ru) Звёздные войны. Эпизод V: Империя наносит ответный удар		2 374 974
4	Japanese (ja) スター・ウォーズ エピソード5/帝国の逆襲		2 152 898
5	Spanish (es) Star Wars: Episodio V - El Imperio contraataca		2 093 128
6	French (fr) Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque		1 611 420
7	Italian (it) L'Impero colpisce ancora		1 420 454
8	Portuguese (pt) Star Wars: Episódio V – O Império Contra-Ataca		969 933
9	Polish (pl) Gwiezdne wojny: część V – Imperium kontratakuje		671 242
10	Chinese (zh) 星際大戰五部曲：帝國大反擊		516 921

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) The Empire Strikes Back		97 550
2	Russian (ru) Звёздные войны. Эпизод V: Империя наносит ответный удар		9 403
3	German (de) Das Imperium schlägt zurück		8 167
4	Spanish (es) Star Wars: Episodio V - El Imperio contraataca		6 490
5	Japanese (ja) スター・ウォーズ エピソード5/帝国の逆襲		6 384
6	French (fr) Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque		5 849
7	Italian (it) L'Impero colpisce ancora		4 411
8	Portuguese (pt) Star Wars: Episódio V – O Império Contra-Ataca		2 192
9	Polish (pl) Gwiezdne wojny: część V – Imperium kontratakuje		2 018
10	Chinese (zh) 星際大戰五部曲：帝國大反擊		1 836

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Empire Strikes Back		1 563
2	Italian (it) L'Impero colpisce ancora		275
3	German (de) Das Imperium schlägt zurück		274
4	French (fr) Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque		264
5	Spanish (es) Star Wars: Episodio V - El Imperio contraataca		205
6	Russian (ru) Звёздные войны. Эпизод V: Империя наносит ответный удар		191
7	Japanese (ja) スター・ウォーズ エピソード5/帝国の逆襲		182
8	Portuguese (pt) Star Wars: Episódio V – O Império Contra-Ataca		120
9	Hungarian (hu) Star Wars V. rész – A Birodalom visszavág		110
10	Dutch (nl) Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back		103

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) The Empire Strikes Back		13
2	Polish (pl) Gwiezdne wojny: część V – Imperium kontratakuje		3
3	Chinese (zh) 星際大戰五部曲：帝國大反擊		3
4	Spanish (es) Star Wars: Episodio V - El Imperio contraataca		2
5	French (fr) Star Wars, épisode V : L'Empire contre-attaque		2
6	Croatian (hr) Ratovi zvijezda V: Imperij uzvraća udarac		2
7	German (de) Das Imperium schlägt zurück		1
8	Finnish (fi) Imperiumin vastaisku		1
9	Hebrew (he) מלחמת הכוכבים – פרק 5: האימפריה מכה שנית		1
10	Italian (it) L'Impero colpisce ancora		1

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

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