Covert operation

Quality:

Covert operation - operation of an intelligence agency or the military that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. Article “Covert operation” in English Wikipedia has 53 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 48 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.89 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Covert operation” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Covert operation”, its content was written by 843 registered users of English Wikipedia (9579^th place) and edited by 1097 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1953 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2874 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #238 in November 2010
• Global: #4629 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9657 in June 2022
• Global: #21991 in June 2022

There are 19 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	Polish (pl) Operacja pod przykryciem		55.4352
2	English (en) Covert operation		53.0397
3	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		31.8547
4	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		30.9786
5	French (fr) Opération secrète		27.4494
6	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		26.506
7	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		24.9457
8	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		20.0392
9	Turkish (tr) Gizli operasyon		19.6336
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Tajna operacija		16.6113

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Covert operation		5 600 553
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		533 781
3	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		147 396
4	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		121 604
5	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		65 688
6	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		44 967
7	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		42 627
8	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		12 243
9	French (fr) Opération secrète		8 693
10	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		7 964

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) Covert operation		36 807
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		1 638
3	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		764
4	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		730
5	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		352
6	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		335
7	Simple English (simple) Covert operation		304
8	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		220
9	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		141
10	French (fr) Opération secrète		135

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Covert operation		843
2	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		95
3	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		29
4	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		22
5	Chinese (zh) 隐蔽行动		19
6	Russian (ru) Секретная операция		12
7	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		11
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		10
9	French (fr) Opération secrète		9
10	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		9

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	German (de) Verdeckte Operation		1
2	English (en) Covert operation		1
3	Spanish (es) Operación encubierta		0
4	Persian (fa) عملیات پنهانی		0
5	Finnish (fi) Salainen operaatio		0
6	French (fr) Opération secrète		0
7	Hebrew (he) מבצע חשאי		0
8	Croatian (hr) Prikrivena operacija		0
9	Italian (it) Operazione coperta		0
10	Japanese (ja) 秘密作戦		0

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

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