MKULTRA

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Project MKUltra - secret CIA program including enforced drug experiments on unwitting humans, mainly U.S. citizens, in hospitals and psychiatric institutions. This event is the 84^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 172^nd most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “MKULTRA” in German Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 9898^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

The 172^nd most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3232^nd most popular in all topics.

The 8920^th most popular in AI.

The 84^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 5522^nd most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2442^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “MKULTRA”, its content was written by 227 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2675 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8920^th place).

Project MKUltra is on the 172^nd place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 84^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1870 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #671 in October 2015
• Global: #2420 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2171 in December 2024
• Global: #782 in October 2017

There are 41 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, 2025 (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) MKUltra		95.2426
2	Thai (th) โครงการเอ็มเคอัลทรา		90
3	Greek (el) Πρόγραμμα MKUltra		89.499
4	Bulgarian (bg) МК-УЛТРА		83.9808
5	Vietnamese (vi) MKUltra		79.7538
6	French (fr) Projet MK-Ultra		75.4878
7	Malay (ms) Projek MKUltra		74.6313
8	Spanish (es) Proyecto MK Ultra		61.2801
9	German (de) MKULTRA		55.2244
10	Serbian (sr) Пројекат Ем-Кеј ултра		45.9654

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) MKUltra		35 419 894
2	Spanish (es) Proyecto MK Ultra		3 906 157
3	French (fr) Projet MK-Ultra		2 359 820
4	German (de) MKULTRA		2 225 884
5	Russian (ru) МК-Ультра		1 576 328
6	Japanese (ja) MKウルトラ計画		1 288 438
7	Italian (it) Progetto MKULTRA		1 237 992
8	Portuguese (pt) Projeto MKULTRA		1 054 591
9	Polish (pl) MKUltra		686 668
10	Dutch (nl) MK-ULTRA		265 643

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) MKUltra		187 381
2	Russian (ru) МК-Ультра		13 458
3	German (de) MKULTRA		11 714
4	Spanish (es) Proyecto MK Ultra		11 507
5	French (fr) Projet MK-Ultra		10 898
6	Japanese (ja) MKウルトラ計画		7 027
7	Italian (it) Progetto MKULTRA		5 742
8	Portuguese (pt) Projeto MKULTRA		5 413
9	Polish (pl) MKUltra		3 703
10	Chinese (zh) MKUltra计划		1 954

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) MKUltra		1 280
2	French (fr) Projet MK-Ultra		260
3	German (de) MKULTRA		227
4	Italian (it) Progetto MKULTRA		131
5	Spanish (es) Proyecto MK Ultra		120
6	Russian (ru) МК-Ультра		104
7	Portuguese (pt) Projeto MKULTRA		54
8	Japanese (ja) MKウルトラ計画		46
9	Hebrew (he) פרויקט MKUltra		41
10	Dutch (nl) MK-ULTRA		41

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	Spanish (es) Proyecto MK Ultra		7
2	English (en) MKUltra		6
3	Persian (fa) پروژه ام‌کی‌اولترا		1
4	Finnish (fi) Projekti MK-Ultra		1
5	Italian (it) Progetto MKULTRA		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Projeto MKULTRA		1
7	Arabic (ar) مشروع إم كي ألترا		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) MKUltra layihəsi		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) МК-УЛТРА		0
10	Catalan (ca) MKUltra		0

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

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