World War II

Quality:

World War II - 1939–1945 global conflict. Article “World War II” in Simple English Wikipedia has 95.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 171 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 73^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6^th most popular in all topics.

The 4^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 125^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 194^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 129^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 276^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “World War II” was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (194^th place) and written by 113 authors in all languages (276^th place).

Since the creation of article “World War II”, its content was written by 440 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6^th place) and edited by 21610 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4^th place).

The article is cited 5099 times in Simple English Wikipedia (63^rd place) and cited 1301329 times in all languages (57^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in February 2017
• Global: #1 in April 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5 in May 2010
• Global: #5 in October 2013

There are 55 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	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		100
2	Dutch (nl) Tweede Wereldoorlog		100
3	Thai (th) สงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง		100
4	Hungarian (hu) Második világháború		100
5	Norwegian (no) Andre verdenskrig		100
6	Lithuanian (lt) Antrasis pasaulinis karas		100
7	Tamil (ta) இரண்டாம் உலகப் போர்		100
8	Galician (gl) Segunda guerra mundial		100
9	Korean (ko) 제2차 세계 대전		99.1229
10	English (en) World War II		97.1709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) World War II		214 600 070
2	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		77 531 972
3	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		33 711 831
4	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		32 561 535
5	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		24 464 544
6	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		23 255 128
7	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		21 785 097
8	Italian (it) Seconda guerra mondiale		18 354 634
9	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		16 549 157
10	Arabic (ar) الحرب العالمية الثانية		12 557 516

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) World War II		716 508
2	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		81 733
3	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		79 094
4	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		65 309
5	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		62 701
6	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		53 727
7	Persian (fa) جنگ جهانی دوم		46 027
8	Italian (it) Seconda guerra mondiale		32 105
9	Chinese (zh) 第二次世界大战		31 332
10	Portuguese (pt) Segunda Guerra Mundial		28 955

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World War II		5 399
2	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		1 456
3	French (fr) Seconde Guerre mondiale		1 209
4	Italian (it) Seconda guerra mondiale		905
5	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		814
6	Russian (ru) Вторая мировая война		804
7	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		732
8	Chinese (zh) 第二次世界大战		671
9	Swedish (sv) Andra världskriget		668
10	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		575

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) World War II		18
2	Persian (fa) جنگ جهانی دوم		12
3	Japanese (ja) 第二次世界大戦		8
4	Spanish (es) Segunda Guerra Mundial		6
5	German (de) Zweiter Weltkrieg		4
6	Polish (pl) II wojna światowa		4
7	Romanian (ro) Al Doilea Război Mondial		4
8	Simple English (simple) World War II		4
9	Slovak (sk) Druhá svetová vojna		4
10	Azerbaijani (az) İkinci Dünya müharibəsi		3

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information