Cremation

Quality:

Cremation - technique or ceremony involving burning of human remains. Article “Cremation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 7701^st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Cremation”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2921 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7701^st place).

The article is cited 138 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13530 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1004 in July 2012
• Global: #3236 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4035 in April 2015
• Global: #1283 in May 2014

There are 50 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	German (de) Feuerbestattung		97.3333
2	Korean (ko) 화장 (장례)		87.0049
3	English (en) Cremation		85.0575
4	Basque (eu) Errausketa (hileta-ohikunea)		82.0526
5	Chinese (zh) 火葬		75.8918
6	Hebrew (he) שרפת גווייה		68.6576
7	French (fr) Crémation		67.7874
8	Spanish (es) Cremación		53.5091
9	Swedish (sv) Kremering		52.0799
10	Catalan (ca) Cremació		48.8051

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cremation		10 059 426
2	Japanese (ja) 火葬		2 846 514
3	Spanish (es) Cremación		2 007 061
4	Russian (ru) Кремация		1 636 652
5	German (de) Feuerbestattung		1 583 507
6	French (fr) Crémation		1 217 570
7	Italian (it) Cremazione		889 519
8	Polish (pl) Kremacja		750 652
9	Chinese (zh) 火葬		715 986
10	Portuguese (pt) Cremação		453 953

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		21 798
2	Japanese (ja) 火葬		6 099
3	Russian (ru) Кремация		3 960
4	German (de) Feuerbestattung		2 441
5	Spanish (es) Cremación		2 063
6	Chinese (zh) 火葬		2 062
7	French (fr) Crémation		1 531
8	Italian (it) Cremazione		1 071
9	Persian (fa) آتش‌سپاری		915
10	Polish (pl) Kremacja		818

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cremation		850
2	German (de) Feuerbestattung		283
3	French (fr) Crémation		178
4	Japanese (ja) 火葬		164
5	Hebrew (he) שרפת גווייה		123
6	Italian (it) Cremazione		115
7	Chinese (zh) 火葬		113
8	Spanish (es) Cremación		111
9	Russian (ru) Кремация		111
10	Dutch (nl) Crematie		104

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) Cremation		3
2	Vietnamese (vi) Hỏa táng		2
3	Czech (cs) Kremace		1
4	German (de) Feuerbestattung		1
5	Basque (eu) Errausketa (hileta-ohikunea)		1
6	Korean (ko) 화장 (장례)		1
7	Dutch (nl) Crematie		1
8	Russian (ru) Кремация		1
9	Chinese (zh) 火葬		1
10	Arabic (ar) حرق الموتى		0

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

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