Human cannibalism

Quality:

Human cannibalism - practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. Article “Human cannibalism” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 288 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1541^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7885^th most popular in all topics.

The 5682^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7065^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6520^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Human cannibalism” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Human cannibalism”, its content was written by 1689 registered users of English Wikipedia (1541^st place) and edited by 3335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5682^nd place).

The article is cited 2189 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6413 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22 in April 2002
• Global: #31 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1776 in October 2022
• Global: #889 in January 2024

There are 28 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) Human cannibalism		100
2	Hindi (hi) नरभक्षण		81.5982
3	Russian (ru) Каннибализм		75.2078
4	Hebrew (he) קניבליזם		66.796
5	Chinese (zh) 食人		59.332
6	Latin (la) Anthropophagia		54.9052
7	Ukrainian (uk) Канібалізм у людей		53.006
8	French (fr) Anthropophagie		51.9403
9	Japanese (ja) カニバリズム		49.2873
10	Indonesian (id) Kanibalisme manusia		46.2023

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) カニバリズム		8 795 570
2	English (en) Human cannibalism		7 637 496
3	Russian (ru) Каннибализм		5 085 467
4	Spanish (es) Antropofagia		2 630 688
5	French (fr) Anthropophagie		2 224 551
6	Portuguese (pt) Antropofagia		1 635 220
7	Chinese (zh) 食人		1 011 858
8	Arabic (ar) أكل لحوم البشر		659 073
9	Persian (fa) آدم‌خواری (انسان‌ها)		622 128
10	Hebrew (he) קניבליזם		309 897

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) Human cannibalism		84 302
2	Japanese (ja) カニバリズム		20 315
3	Russian (ru) Каннибализм		19 574
4	Chinese (zh) 食人		7 426
5	French (fr) Anthropophagie		4 731
6	Spanish (es) Antropofagia		2 853
7	Persian (fa) آدم‌خواری (انسان‌ها)		2 520
8	Portuguese (pt) Antropofagia		1 769
9	Turkish (tr) İnsan yamyamlığı		1 717
10	Arabic (ar) أكل لحوم البشر		1 712

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human cannibalism		1 689
2	Russian (ru) Каннибализм		338
3	Japanese (ja) カニバリズム		295
4	French (fr) Anthropophagie		213
5	Hebrew (he) קניבליזם		152
6	Chinese (zh) 食人		140
7	Persian (fa) آدم‌خواری (انسان‌ها)		82
8	Portuguese (pt) Antropofagia		74
9	Spanish (es) Antropofagia		67
10	Korean (ko) 식인		52

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) Human cannibalism		5
2	Esperanto (eo) Antropofagio		1
3	Korean (ko) 식인		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Канібалізм у людей		1
5	Chinese (zh) 食人		1
6	Arabic (ar) أكل لحوم البشر		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Антропофагия		0
8	Catalan (ca) Antropofàgia		0
9	Greek (el) Ανθρωποφαγία		0
10	Spanish (es) Antropofagia		0

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

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