Cargo cult programming

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Cargo cult programming

Quality:

Cargo cult programming - style of computer programming characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. Article “Cargo cult programming” in English Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Cargo cult programming”, its content was written by 106 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 166 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in English Wikipedia and cited 41 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #862 in September 2002
  • Global: #1787 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #66517 in September 2013
  • Global: #118448 in September 2013

There are 9 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
27.8093
2Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
27.5062
3Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
25.0493
4Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
22.4199
5English (en)
Cargo cult programming
19.9196
6Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
19.7682
7Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
16.0009
8Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
12.3202
9Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
5.8271
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Cargo cult programming" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Cargo cult programming
1 293 732
2Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
71 695
3Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
25 828
4Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
9 163
5Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
4 354
6Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
3 145
7Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
1 576
8Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
980
9Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
685
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Cargo cult programming" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Cargo cult programming
5 343
2Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
245
3Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
105
4Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
27
5Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
21
6Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
19
7Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
18
8Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
13
9Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
12
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Cargo cult programming" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Cargo cult programming
106
2Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
16
3Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
13
4Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
11
5Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
6
6Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
5
7Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
5
8Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
2
9Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Cargo cult programming" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
1
2Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
0
3English (en)
Cargo cult programming
0
4Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
0
5Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
0
6Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
0
7Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
0
8Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
0
9Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Cargo cult programming" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Cargo cult programming
10
2Ukrainian (uk)
Карго-культ програмування
7
3Japanese (ja)
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
6
4Persian (fa)
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
5
5Chinese (zh)
货物崇拜编程
5
6Hungarian (hu)
Cargo cult programozás
3
7Italian (it)
Programmazione cargo cult
3
8Czech (cs)
Kargokultické programování
2
9Portuguese (pt)
Programação de culto à carga
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Kargokultické programování
enEnglish
Cargo cult programming
faPersian
برنامه‌نویسی بارباورانه
huHungarian
Cargo cult programozás
itItalian
Programmazione cargo cult
jaJapanese
カーゴ・カルト・プログラミング
ptPortuguese
Programação de culto à carga
ukUkrainian
Карго-культ програмування
zhChinese
货物崇拜编程

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#66517
09.2013
Global:
#118448
09.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#862
09.2002
Global:
#1787
09.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Cargo cult programming from Wikipedia articles about Cargo cult, Heisenbug, Cargo cult, Copy-and-paste programming and Magic. Whereas reading the article about Cargo cult programming people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Magic, Shotgun debugging, Cargo cult, “Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman!” and Copy-and-paste programming.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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