Milgram experiment

Quality:

The Milgram experiment - series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures. Article “Milgram experiment” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 6 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 6465^th most popular in all topics.

The 8218^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Milgram experiment”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2829 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8218^th place).

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1540 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #374 in November 2013
• Global: #538 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4063 in October 2021
• Global: #2438 in March 2010

There are 43 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) Milgram-Experiment		68.778
2	English (en) Milgram experiment		64.1275
3	Turkish (tr) Milgram deneyi		52.7783
4	Chinese (zh) 米爾格倫實驗		50.251
5	Armenian (hy) Միլգրեմի գիտափորձ		45.8017
6	French (fr) Expérience de Milgram		42.5788
7	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Милгрэма		38.8058
8	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Milgrama		37.4826
9	Indonesian (id) Percobaan Milgram		34.4372
10	Dutch (nl) Experiment van Milgram		31.2889

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Milgram experiment		16 092 514
2	French (fr) Expérience de Milgram		3 339 449
3	German (de) Milgram-Experiment		3 165 824
4	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Милгрэма		3 031 707
5	Spanish (es) Experimento de Milgram		2 286 004
6	Japanese (ja) ミルグラム実験		1 979 504
7	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Milgrama		1 179 816
8	Chinese (zh) 米爾格倫實驗		940 478
9	Italian (it) Esperimento di Milgram		897 297
10	Turkish (tr) Milgram deneyi		527 296

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) Milgram experiment		28 471
2	French (fr) Expérience de Milgram		9 135
3	German (de) Milgram-Experiment		8 487
4	Japanese (ja) ミルグラム実験		4 301
5	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Милгрэма		4 014
6	Spanish (es) Experimento de Milgram		3 298
7	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Milgrama		2 991
8	Chinese (zh) 米爾格倫實驗		2 511
9	Italian (it) Esperimento di Milgram		2 121
10	Portuguese (pt) Experiência de Milgram		1 086

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Milgram experiment		818
2	German (de) Milgram-Experiment		390
3	French (fr) Expérience de Milgram		272
4	Russian (ru) Эксперимент Милгрэма		142
5	Italian (it) Esperimento di Milgram		100
6	Spanish (es) Experimento de Milgram		92
7	Hebrew (he) הניסוי של מילגרם		91
8	Dutch (nl) Experiment van Milgram		89
9	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Milgrama		86
10	Chinese (zh) 米爾格倫實驗		69

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	Catalan (ca) Experiment de Milgram		2
2	English (en) Milgram experiment		2
3	French (fr) Expérience de Milgram		1
4	Hebrew (he) הניסוי של מילגרם		1
5	Indonesian (id) Percobaan Milgram		1
6	Italian (it) Esperimento di Milgram		1
7	Japanese (ja) ミルグラム実験		1
8	Romanian (ro) Experimentul Milgram		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Експеримент Мілґрема		1
10	Chinese (zh) 米爾格倫實驗		1

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

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