Cremation

Quality:

Cremation - disposition of a dead body by burning. Article “Cremation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7818^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7862^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Cremation”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2855 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7818^th place).

The article is cited 138 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12763 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1005 in July 2012
• Global: #3372 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4020 in April 2015
• Global: #1252 in May 2014

There are 49 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	German (de) Feuerbestattung		98.5714
2	Korean (ko) 화장 (장례)		87.2427
3	English (en) Cremation		84.9485
4	Basque (eu) Errausketa (hileta-ohikunea)		82.0915
5	Chinese (zh) 火葬		76.0823
6	French (fr) Crémation		69.9677
7	Hebrew (he) שרפת גווייה		69.3374
8	Spanish (es) Cremación		54.0581
9	Swedish (sv) Kremering		53.1562
10	Japanese (ja) 火葬		46.9304

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cremation		9 726 182
2	Japanese (ja) 火葬		2 759 041
3	Spanish (es) Cremación		1 973 964
4	German (de) Feuerbestattung		1 548 408
5	Russian (ru) Кремация		1 496 050
6	French (fr) Crémation		1 190 267
7	Italian (it) Cremazione		872 341
8	Polish (pl) Kremacja		737 948
9	Chinese (zh) 火葬		686 672
10	Portuguese (pt) Cremação		445 704

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) Cremation		28 238
2	Japanese (ja) 火葬		7 803
3	Russian (ru) Кремация		4 436
4	Spanish (es) Cremación		3 280
5	German (de) Feuerbestattung		2 774
6	Chinese (zh) 火葬		2 447
7	French (fr) Crémation		2 405
8	Italian (it) Cremazione		1 314
9	Turkish (tr) Kremasyon		928
10	Simple English (simple) Cremation		840

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cremation		833
2	German (de) Feuerbestattung		279
3	French (fr) Crémation		172
4	Japanese (ja) 火葬		160
5	Hebrew (he) שרפת גווייה		120
6	Italian (it) Cremazione		111
7	Chinese (zh) 火葬		111
8	Spanish (es) Cremación		108
9	Russian (ru) Кремация		105
10	Dutch (nl) Crematie		102

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	Korean (ko) 화장 (장례)		5
2	English (en) Cremation		4
3	French (fr) Crémation		2
4	German (de) Feuerbestattung		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Kremacio		1
6	Galician (gl) Cremación		1
7	Hebrew (he) שרפת גווייה		1
8	Italian (it) Cremazione		1
9	Japanese (ja) 火葬		1
10	Norwegian (no) Likbrenning		1

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

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