Philadelphia Experiment

Quality:

Philadelphia Experiment - urban legend about a supposed US Naval experiment in 1943. Article “Philadelphia Experiment” in English Wikipedia has 51.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 52 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9995^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9002^nd most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Philadelphia Experiment”, its content was written by 732 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1991 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 518 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2337 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2079 in December 2002
• Global: #4008 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2816 in July 2021
• Global: #2824 in December 2025

There are 34 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	Chinese (zh) 費城實驗		65.1059
2	English (en) Philadelphia Experiment		51.7972
3	Ukrainian (uk) Філадельфійський експеримент		47.7269
4	German (de) Philadelphia-Experiment		42.9736
5	Azerbaijani (az) Filadelfiya təcrübəsi		41.264
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thí nghiệm Philadelphia		39.0979
7	Indonesian (id) Eksperimen Philadelphia		32.3942
8	French (fr) Expérience de Philadelphie		30.841
9	Armenian (hy) Ֆիլադելֆյան փորձ		29.3886
10	Russian (ru) Филадельфийский эксперимент		28.276

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Philadelphia Experiment		14 504 003
2	Japanese (ja) フィラデルフィア計画		3 346 115
3	Russian (ru) Филадельфийский эксперимент		2 901 387
4	Spanish (es) Experimento Filadelfia		2 246 398
5	German (de) Philadelphia-Experiment		1 202 276
6	Chinese (zh) 費城實驗		995 903
7	Turkish (tr) Philadelphia Deneyi		915 708
8	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Filadelfia		726 743
9	Italian (it) Esperimento di Filadelfia		698 175
10	Portuguese (pt) Experimento Filadélfia		546 332

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) Philadelphia Experiment		24 769
2	Japanese (ja) フィラデルフィア計画		4 853
3	Russian (ru) Филадельфийский эксперимент		3 896
4	German (de) Philadelphia-Experiment		2 061
5	Spanish (es) Experimento Filadelfia		2 001
6	Chinese (zh) 費城實驗		1 715
7	French (fr) Expérience de Philadelphie		1 621
8	Polish (pl) Eksperyment Filadelfia		1 266
9	Italian (it) Esperimento di Filadelfia		1 033
10	Turkish (tr) Philadelphia Deneyi		892

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Philadelphia Experiment		732
2	German (de) Philadelphia-Experiment		179
3	Russian (ru) Филадельфийский эксперимент		117
4	Italian (it) Esperimento di Filadelfia		115
5	Spanish (es) Experimento Filadelfia		92
6	French (fr) Expérience de Philadelphie		83
7	Dutch (nl) Philadelphia-experiment		61
8	Turkish (tr) Philadelphia Deneyi		61
9	Japanese (ja) フィラデルフィア計画		58
10	Chinese (zh) 費城實驗		51

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	Arabic (ar) تجربة فيلادلفيا		2
2	Chinese (zh) 費城實驗		2
3	Basque (eu) Filadelfia esperimentua		1
4	French (fr) Expérience de Philadelphie		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Filadelfiya təcrübəsi		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Филаделфийски експеримент		0
7	Catalan (ca) Experiment Filadèlfia		0
8	Czech (cs) Filadelfský experiment		0
9	German (de) Philadelphia-Experiment		0
10	Greek (el) Πείραμα της Φιλαδέλφειας		0

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

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