Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis - October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States. This event is the 50^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 55^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Cuban Missile Crisis” in English Wikipedia has 86.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 291 references and 47 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.56 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2576^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 562^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 55^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1878^th most popular in all topics.

The 1059^th most popular in AI.

The 50^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4477^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8187^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2832^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4101^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Cuban Missile Crisis” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8187^th place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (4101^st place).

Since the creation of article “Cuban Missile Crisis”, its content was written by 2251 registered users of English Wikipedia (562^nd place) and edited by 6241 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1059^th place).

Cuban Missile Crisis is on the 55^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 50^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3679 times in English Wikipedia (7217^th place) and cited 15621 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #134 in October 2003
• Global: #348 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #658 in May 2008
• Global: #310 in March 2022

There are 52 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	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		97.7663
2	Catalan (ca) Crisi dels míssils de Cuba		95.8477
3	Swedish (sv) Kubakrisen		89.3277
4	Hindi (hi) क्यूबाई मिसाइल संकट		87.2012
5	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		86.5768
6	Vietnamese (vi) Khủng hoảng tên lửa Cuba		79.6518
7	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		69.8706
8	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		65.3298
9	Croatian (hr) Kubanska kriza		59.5245
10	German (de) Kubakrise		59.2321

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		28 311 644
2	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		6 568 628
3	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		5 696 077
4	German (de) Kubakrise		5 195 215
5	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		3 374 193
6	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		3 146 773
7	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		1 692 711
8	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		1 688 540
9	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos mísseis de Cuba		1 376 171
10	Polish (pl) Kryzys kubański		1 212 008

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) Cuban Missile Crisis		111 823
2	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		19 620
3	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		18 971
4	German (de) Kubakrise		14 520
5	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		11 460
6	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		11 318
7	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		9 199
8	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		7 910
9	Simple English (simple) Cuban Missile Crisis		5 667
10	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos mísseis de Cuba		3 270

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cuban Missile Crisis		2 251
2	German (de) Kubakrise		571
3	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		333
4	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		309
5	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		251
6	Italian (it) Crisi dei missili di Cuba		222
7	Japanese (ja) キューバ危機		196
8	Dutch (nl) Cubacrisis		163
9	Chinese (zh) 古巴导弹危机		134
10	Simple English (simple) Cuban Missile Crisis		133

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) Cuban Missile Crisis		10
2	Spanish (es) Crisis de los misiles de Cuba		4
3	Dutch (nl) Cubacrisis		3
4	Russian (ru) Карибский кризис		3
5	French (fr) Crise des missiles de Cuba		2
6	Polish (pl) Kryzys kubański		2
7	Catalan (ca) Crisi dels míssils de Cuba		1
8	Czech (cs) Karibská krize		1
9	Danish (da) Cubakrisen		1
10	Galician (gl) Crise dos mísiles de Cuba		1

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

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