Operation Praying Mantis

Operation Praying Mantis - 1988 U.S. naval offensive against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War. This event is the 1607^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Operation Praying Mantis” in English Wikipedia has 44 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.89 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Operation Praying Mantis” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Operation Praying Mantis”, its content was written by 239 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 629 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Praying Mantis is on the 1607^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 418 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18083 in December 2011
• Global: #14806 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1936 in June 2024
• Global: #5024 in June 2024

There are 16 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	Chinese (zh) 螳螂行動		48.7886
2	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		43.9861
3	Hebrew (he) מבצע גמל שלמה		40.5103
4	Italian (it) Operazione Praying Mantis		40.0208
5	Finnish (fi) Operaatio Praying Mantis		32.7484
6	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		28.282
7	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		27.9565
8	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		25.9367
9	Arabic (ar) عملية فرس النبي		24.859
10	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Прейінг Мантіс»		19.9488

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Praying Mantis" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		3 080 497
2	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		726 918
3	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		310 369
4	Russian (ru) Богомол (операция)		189 887
5	Japanese (ja) プレイング・マンティス作戦		134 225
6	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		132 813
7	Italian (it) Operazione Praying Mantis		36 425
8	Arabic (ar) عملية فرس النبي		28 262
9	Swedish (sv) Operation Praying Mantis		16 720
10	Chinese (zh) 螳螂行動		12 909

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Praying Mantis" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		114 744
2	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		6 063
3	Russian (ru) Богомол (операция)		3 814
4	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		2 763
5	Japanese (ja) プレイング・マンティス作戦		1 453
6	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		1 278
7	Arabic (ar) عملية فرس النبي		1 166
8	Chinese (zh) 螳螂行動		1 110
9	Italian (it) Operazione Praying Mantis		739
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע גמל שלמה		676

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

Language versions of the article "Operation Praying Mantis" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		239
2	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		106
3	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		79
4	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		74
5	Italian (it) Operazione Praying Mantis		40
6	Russian (ru) Богомол (операция)		29
7	Japanese (ja) プレイング・マンティス作戦		19
8	Swedish (sv) Operation Praying Mantis		13
9	Croatian (hr) Operacija Bogomoljka		8
10	Hebrew (he) מבצע גמל שלמה		6

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

Language versions of the article "Operation Praying Mantis" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		2
2	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		1
3	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		1
4	Hebrew (he) מבצע גמל שלמה		1
5	Swedish (sv) Operation Praying Mantis		1
6	Chinese (zh) 螳螂行動		1
7	Arabic (ar) عملية فرس النبي		0
8	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		0
9	Finnish (fi) Operaatio Praying Mantis		0
10	Croatian (hr) Operacija Bogomoljka		0

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

Language versions of the article "Operation Praying Mantis" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Operation Praying Mantis		418
2	Persian (fa) عملیات آخوندک		308
3	Italian (it) Operazione Praying Mantis		90
4	French (fr) Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri		62
5	German (de) Operation Praying Mantis		56
6	Japanese (ja) プレイング・マンティス作戦		56
7	Russian (ru) Богомол (операция)		47
8	Ukrainian (uk) Операція «Прейінг Мантіс»		21
9	Swedish (sv) Operation Praying Mantis		20
10	Chinese (zh) 螳螂行動		15

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عملية فرس النبي
de	German Operation Praying Mantis
en	English Operation Praying Mantis
fa	Persian عملیات آخوندک
fi	Finnish Operaatio Praying Mantis
fr	French Bataille des plates-formes pétrolières Sassan et Sirri
he	Hebrew מבצע גמל שלמה
hr	Croatian Operacija Bogomoljka
it	Italian Operazione Praying Mantis
ja	Japanese プレイング・マンティス作戦
ko	Korean 프레잉 맨티스 작전
ru	Russian Богомол (операция)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Operacija Bogomoljka
sv	Swedish Operation Praying Mantis
uk	Ukrainian Операція «Прейінг Мантіс»
zh	Chinese 螳螂行動

Best Rank

English: #1936 06.2024

Global: #5024 06.2024

Best Rank

English: #18083 12.2011

Global: #14806 04.2018

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