The War of the Worlds (radio drama)

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The War of the Worlds - 1938 radio drama by Orson Welles. This television series is the 1153^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 969^th most popular television series in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The War of the Worlds (radio drama)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 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 969^th most popular in television series in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1153^rd most popular in television series.

Since the creation of article “The War of the Worlds (radio drama)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1352 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The War of the Worlds is on the 969^th place in local ranking of television series in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1153^rd place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1123 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #746 in November 2017
• Global: #2157 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #22511 in October 2019
• Global: #7132 in October 2013

There are 30 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 War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)		95.5366
2	Hebrew (he) מלחמת העולמות (תסכית)		67.2966
3	Romanian (ro) Războiul lumilor (emisiune radiofonică din 1938)		58.2893
4	Finnish (fi) Maailmojen sota (vuoden 1938 radiokuunnelma)		53.4948
5	Catalan (ca) La guerra dels mons (ràdio)		37.7614
6	Greek (el) Ο Πόλεμος των Κόσμων (ραδιοφωνικό δράμα)		34.7616
7	French (fr) La Guerre des mondes (radio, 1938)		34.283
8	Japanese (ja) 宇宙戦争 (ラジオ)		33.2939
9	Spanish (es) La guerra de los mundos (radio)		33.0004
10	Armenian (hy) Աշխարհների պատերազմ (ռադիոբեմադրություն)		29.4439

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)		6 957 575
2	Spanish (es) La guerra de los mundos (radio)		1 253 738
3	French (fr) La Guerre des mondes (radio, 1938)		306 856
4	Japanese (ja) 宇宙戦争 (ラジオ)		298 857
5	Italian (it) The War of the Worlds (programma radiofonico)		280 716
6	Russian (ru) Война миров (радиопостановка)		278 794
7	Dutch (nl) The War of the Worlds (hoorspel)		252 646
8	Polish (pl) Wojna światów (słuchowisko)		202 667
9	Chinese (zh) 世界大戰 (廣播劇)		70 173
10	Portuguese (pt) A Guerra dos Mundos (rádio)		55 848

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 War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)		21 802
2	Spanish (es) La guerra de los mundos (radio)		2 023
3	Japanese (ja) 宇宙戦争 (ラジオ)		1 194
4	Italian (it) The War of the Worlds (programma radiofonico)		1 131
5	French (fr) La Guerre des mondes (radio, 1938)		989
6	Russian (ru) Война миров (радиопостановка)		920
7	Polish (pl) Wojna światów (słuchowisko)		903
8	Portuguese (pt) A Guerra dos Mundos (rádio)		463
9	Dutch (nl) The War of the Worlds (hoorspel)		367
10	Simple English (simple) The War of the Worlds (radio drama)		343

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)		691
2	French (fr) La Guerre des mondes (radio, 1938)		80
3	Spanish (es) La guerra de los mundos (radio)		78
4	Italian (it) The War of the Worlds (programma radiofonico)		77
5	Dutch (nl) The War of the Worlds (hoorspel)		50
6	Japanese (ja) 宇宙戦争 (ラジオ)		43
7	Russian (ru) Война миров (радиопостановка)		41
8	Chinese (zh) 世界大戰 (廣播劇)		29
9	Hebrew (he) מלחמת העולמות (תסכית)		27
10	Finnish (fi) Maailmojen sota (vuoden 1938 radiokuunnelma)		26

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 War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)		2
2	Galician (gl) The War of the Worlds (radio)		2
3	Finnish (fi) Maailmojen sota (vuoden 1938 radiokuunnelma)		1
4	Hebrew (he) מלחמת העולמות (תסכית)		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Dünyaların müharibəsi (radiotamaşa)		0
6	Catalan (ca) La guerra dels mons (ràdio)		0
7	Czech (cs) Válka světů (rozhlas)		0
8	Greek (el) Ο Πόλεμος των Κόσμων (ραδιοφωνικό δράμα)		0
9	Spanish (es) La guerra de los mundos (radio)		0
10	Basque (eu) The War of the Worlds (irrati drama)		0

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

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