Lost Cause

Quality:

Lost Cause of the Confederacy - American historical negationist ideology that holds that the cause of the Confederacy during the American Civil War was a just and heroic one. Article “Lost Cause” in Czech Wikipedia has 87.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 183 references and 21 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Czech) language version.

Since the creation of article “Lost Cause”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Czech Wikipedia and edited by 701 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 1911 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Czech): #1749 in September 2021
• Global: #1823 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Czech): #60682 in April 2024
• Global: #4611 in June 2020

There are 20 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) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		92.4723
2	Czech (cs) Lost Cause		87.3914
3	Bulgarian (bg) Изгубената кауза на Конфедерацията		50.5466
4	Malay (ms) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		47.639
5	Romanian (ro) Cauza Pierdută a Confederației		41.1584
6	Russian (ru) Проигранное дело Конфедерации		40.0048
7	French (fr) Cause perdue des États confédérés d'Amérique		35.5013
8	Spanish (es) Causa Perdida de la Confederación		30.3988
9	German (de) The Lost Cause		28.7938
10	Latin (la) The Lost Cause		27.1275

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		6 150 371
2	Japanese (ja) 南部の失われた大義		91 673
3	French (fr) Cause perdue des États confédérés d'Amérique		77 129
4	German (de) The Lost Cause		72 266
5	Chinese (zh) 敗局命定論		41 501
6	Portuguese (pt) Lost Cause		31 549
7	Russian (ru) Проигранное дело Конфедерации		22 780
8	Spanish (es) Causa Perdida de la Confederación		18 348
9	Polish (pl) Mit Przegranej Sprawy		11 719
10	Dutch (nl) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		5 461

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) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		42 955
2	German (de) The Lost Cause		878
3	Russian (ru) Проигранное дело Конфедерации		867
4	French (fr) Cause perdue des États confédérés d'Amérique		660
5	Spanish (es) Causa Perdida de la Confederación		658
6	Japanese (ja) 南部の失われた大義		582
7	Polish (pl) Mit Przegranej Sprawy		298
8	Chinese (zh) 敗局命定論		263
9	Portuguese (pt) Lost Cause		225
10	Czech (cs) Lost Cause		84

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		521
2	French (fr) Cause perdue des États confédérés d'Amérique		33
3	Chinese (zh) 敗局命定論		21
4	Japanese (ja) 南部の失われた大義		20
5	Portuguese (pt) Lost Cause		15
6	German (de) The Lost Cause		14
7	Russian (ru) Проигранное дело Конфедерации		12
8	Spanish (es) Causa Perdida de la Confederación		9
9	Finnish (fi) Lost Cause		9
10	Polish (pl) Mit Przegranej Sprawy		8

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) Lost Cause of the Confederacy		7
2	Arabic (ar) قضية الكونفدرالية المفقودة		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Изгубената кауза на Конфедерацията		0
4	Czech (cs) Lost Cause		0
5	Danish (da) Konføderationens Fortabte Sag		0
6	German (de) The Lost Cause		0
7	Spanish (es) Causa Perdida de la Confederación		0
8	Persian (fa) جنبش ازدست‌رفته مؤتلفه		0
9	Finnish (fi) Lost Cause		0
10	French (fr) Cause perdue des États confédérés d'Amérique		0

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

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