Rain dance

Quality:

Rainmaking rites - weather modification ritual. Article “Rain dance” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 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 “Rain dance”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 622 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 873 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #93 in July 2008
• Global: #3380 in July 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #427 in August 2012
• Global: #88849 in August 2011

There are 32 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) Rainmaking (ritual)		51.6317
2	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu mưa		39.9086
3	Chinese (zh) 祈雨舞		28.7018
4	French (fr) Danse de la pluie		27.5047
5	German (de) Regenmacherritual		27.1275
6	Hebrew (he) ריקוד גשם		26.7257
7	Hungarian (hu) Esőtánc		23.9323
8	Greek (el) Χορός της βροχής		23.4644
9	Russian (ru) Обряд вызывания дождя		22.8554
10	Simple English (simple) Rain dance		22.5783

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rainmaking (ritual)		842 857
2	Japanese (ja) 雨乞い		355 867
3	Spanish (es) Danza de la lluvia		303 380
4	Russian (ru) Обряд вызывания дождя		236 338
5	German (de) Regenmacherritual		100 844
6	French (fr) Danse de la pluie		95 280
7	Italian (it) Danza della pioggia		81 986
8	Thai (th) การขอฝน		80 574
9	Portuguese (pt) Dança da chuva		80 097
10	Simple English (simple) Rain dance		67 102

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) Rainmaking (ritual)		2 823
2	Japanese (ja) 雨乞い		1 323
3	Russian (ru) Обряд вызывания дождя		1 170
4	French (fr) Danse de la pluie		743
5	German (de) Regenmacherritual		481
6	Ukrainian (uk) Обряд викликання дощу		277
7	Simple English (simple) Rain dance		273
8	Italian (it) Danza della pioggia		217
9	Chinese (zh) 祈雨舞		145
10	Dutch (nl) Regendans		123

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rainmaking (ritual)		150
2	German (de) Regenmacherritual		46
3	French (fr) Danse de la pluie		42
4	Russian (ru) Обряд вызывания дождя		41
5	Japanese (ja) 雨乞い		37
6	Dutch (nl) Regendans		33
7	Spanish (es) Danza de la lluvia		31
8	Greek (el) Χορός της βροχής		30
9	Simple English (simple) Rain dance		21
10	Italian (it) Danza della pioggia		20

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) Rainmaking (ritual)		2
2	Spanish (es) Danza de la lluvia		1
3	Japanese (ja) 雨乞い		1
4	Korean (ko) 기우제		1
5	Arabic (ar) رقصة المطر		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Призоваване на дъжд		0
7	Catalan (ca) Dansa de la pluja		0
8	Danish (da) Regnmageri		0
9	German (de) Regenmacherritual		0
10	Greek (el) Χορός της βροχής		0

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

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