Cargo cult

Quality:

Cargo cult - religious practice. Article “Cargo cult” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Cargo cult”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1500 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1403 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #529 in February 2009
• Global: #3089 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #685 in June 2019
• Global: #2896 in October 2016

There are 36 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, 2026 (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) Cargo cult		71.364
2	German (de) Cargo-Kult		29.9965
3	Hungarian (hu) Rakománykultuszok		29.8559
4	French (fr) Culte du cargo		29.3393
5	Turkish (tr) Kargo kültü		29.0335
6	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		27.136
7	Finnish (fi) Lastikultti		25.3399
8	Portuguese (pt) Culto à carga		24.0656
9	Norwegian (no) Cargokult		21.7872
10	Catalan (ca) Cultes Cargo		21.0276

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cargo cult		6 541 069
2	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		1 867 958
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		705 171
4	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		497 134
5	French (fr) Culte du cargo		455 642
6	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		346 910
7	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		228 301
8	Spanish (es) Culto cargo		159 529
9	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		106 049
10	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		84 125

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) Cargo cult		25 989
2	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		5 683
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		2 103
4	French (fr) Culte du cargo		1 878
5	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		1 624
6	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		1 040
7	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		976
8	Spanish (es) Culto cargo		696
9	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		689
10	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		367

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cargo cult		492
2	French (fr) Culte du cargo		166
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		154
4	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		118
5	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		82
6	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		57
7	Dutch (nl) Cargocult		40
8	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		37
9	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		37
10	Finnish (fi) Lastikultti		30

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) Cargo cult		4
2	Arabic (ar) ديانات الشحن		1
3	French (fr) Culte du cargo		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Karqo kultu		0
6	Belarusian (be) Культ карга		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Самолетопоклонничество		0
8	Catalan (ca) Cultes Cargo		0
9	Czech (cs) Cargo kult		0
10	Danish (da) Cargokult		0

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

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