Cult

Quality:

Cult - social group with socially deviant or novel religious, philosophical or spiritual beliefs and practices. Article “Cult” in Simple English Wikipedia has 46.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7693^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4756^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6441^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8179^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Cult”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4756^th place) and edited by 3187 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6441^st place).

The article is cited 141 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8132 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #54 in November 2006
• Global: #45 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2502 in April 2020
• Global: #55 in May 2013

There are 33 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) Cult		92.6819
2	Hindi (hi) कल्ट		90
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cuồng giáo		74.9365
4	Persian (fa) فرقه		74.0342
5	Hebrew (he) כת		72.9899
6	Turkish (tr) Kült		69.2699
7	French (fr) Secte		65.4704
8	Japanese (ja) カルト		62.5426
9	Armenian (hy) Պաշտամունք		61.4523
10	Chinese (zh) 邪教		47.9488

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cult		16 318 733
2	Japanese (ja) カルト		2 927 787
3	French (fr) Secte		2 592 116
4	Chinese (zh) 邪教		1 158 206
5	Portuguese (pt) Seita		1 059 064
6	Italian (it) Setta		662 558
7	Turkish (tr) Kült		550 370
8	Hebrew (he) כת		353 342
9	Finnish (fi) Kultti		239 168
10	Persian (fa) فرقه		167 822

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) Cult		35 978
2	Japanese (ja) カルト		5 015
3	Chinese (zh) 邪教		4 583
4	French (fr) Secte		3 553
5	Italian (it) Setta		1 377
6	Hebrew (he) כת		1 169
7	Portuguese (pt) Seita		1 140
8	Turkish (tr) Kült		910
9	Finnish (fi) Kultti		503
10	Persian (fa) فرقه		502

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cult		1 445
2	French (fr) Secte		546
3	Japanese (ja) カルト		256
4	Chinese (zh) 邪教		241
5	Hebrew (he) כת		187
6	Italian (it) Setta		123
7	Portuguese (pt) Seita		74
8	Simple English (simple) Cult		37
9	Persian (fa) فرقه		36
10	Turkish (tr) Kült		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) Cult		6
2	Armenian (hy) Պաշտամունք		2
3	Chinese (zh) 邪教		2
4	Basque (eu) Kultu		1
5	French (fr) Secte		1
6	Hindi (hi) कल्ट		1
7	Italian (it) Setta		1
8	Japanese (ja) カルト		1
9	Turkish (tr) Kült		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Kult		0

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

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