Cargo cult

Quality:

Cargo cult - religious practice. Article “Cargo cult” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 1486 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1637 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #528 in February 2009
• Global: #3089 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #682 in June 2019
• Global: #2888 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, 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) Cargo cult		72.0823
2	German (de) Cargo-Kult		30.4604
3	Hungarian (hu) Rakománykultuszok		29.8819
4	French (fr) Culte du cargo		29.3778
5	Turkish (tr) Kargo kültü		29.0093
6	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		28.517
7	Finnish (fi) Lastikultti		25.3183
8	Portuguese (pt) Culto à carga		24.1524
9	Norwegian (no) Cargokult		21.8776
10	Catalan (ca) Cultes Cargo		20.9477

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cargo cult		6 201 807
2	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		1 726 426
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		674 836
4	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		475 669
5	French (fr) Culte du cargo		436 009
6	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		333 657
7	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		220 209
8	Spanish (es) Culto cargo		151 667
9	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		99 278
10	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		79 407

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		28 630
2	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		6 354
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		1 903
4	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		1 859
5	French (fr) Culte du cargo		1 845
6	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		736
7	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		726
8	Spanish (es) Culto cargo		642
9	Simple English (simple) Cargo cult		539
10	Chinese (zh) 貨物崇拜		443

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		481
2	French (fr) Culte du cargo		165
3	German (de) Cargo-Kult		153
4	Russian (ru) Карго-культ		118
5	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		80
6	Japanese (ja) カーゴ・カルト		55
7	Dutch (nl) Cargocult		39
8	Norwegian (no) Cargokult		38
9	Polish (pl) Kulty cargo		36
10	Ukrainian (uk) Культ карго		35

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		2
2	Czech (cs) Cargo kult		1
3	French (fr) Culte du cargo		1
4	Italian (it) Culto del cargo		1
5	Arabic (ar) ديانات الشحن		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Karqo kultu		0
7	Belarusian (be) Культ карга		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Самолетопоклонничество		0
9	Catalan (ca) Cultes Cargo		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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