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Direct selling

Quality:

Direct selling - controversial marketing strategy in which a party buys products from a parent organisation and sells them directly to customers. Article “Direct selling” in English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Direct selling”, its content was written by 140 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 656 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 394 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1045 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #22932 in July 2011
  • Global: #28981 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #62494 in April 2013
  • Global: #43268 in November 2013

There are 19 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
81.3333
2Chinese (zh)
直销
40.1452
3Russian (ru)
Прямые продажи
33.5558
4German (de)
Direktvertrieb
33.4398
5Hindi (hi)
प्रत्यक्ष बिक्री
29.6953
6Ukrainian (uk)
Прямі продажі
24.1894
7Catalan (ca)
Venda directa
23.5964
8Arabic (ar)
بيع مباشر
22.5888
9Armenian (hy)
Ուղիղ վաճառք
21.6994
10English (en)
Direct selling
20.8529
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct selling" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direct selling
2 122 937
2Chinese (zh)
直销
644 452
3Russian (ru)
Прямые продажи
499 256
4German (de)
Direktvertrieb
496 806
5Spanish (es)
Venta directa
383 468
6Thai (th)
การขายตรง
279 498
7Polish (pl)
Sprzedaż bezpośrednia
240 146
8French (fr)
Vente directe
228 037
9Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
175 718
10Portuguese (pt)
Venda direta
69 183
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct selling" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Direct selling
2 288
2Chinese (zh)
直销
1 489
3German (de)
Direktvertrieb
631
4Russian (ru)
Прямые продажи
431
5Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
351
6Spanish (es)
Venta directa
199
7Thai (th)
การขายตรง
184
8French (fr)
Vente directe
147
9Hindi (hi)
प्रत्यक्ष बिक्री
123
10Polish (pl)
Sprzedaż bezpośrednia
98
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Direct selling" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Direct selling
140
2German (de)
Direktvertrieb
96
3Chinese (zh)
直销
67
4Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
62
5French (fr)
Vente directe
59
6Russian (ru)
Прямые продажи
47
7Spanish (es)
Venta directa
39
8Thai (th)
การขายตรง
31
9Polish (pl)
Sprzedaż bezpośrednia
24
10Swedish (sv)
Direktförsäljning
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Direct selling" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Venda directa
1
2Arabic (ar)
بيع مباشر
0
3Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
0
4German (de)
Direktvertrieb
0
5English (en)
Direct selling
0
6Spanish (es)
Venta directa
0
7Basque (eu)
Zuzeneko salmenta
0
8French (fr)
Vente directe
0
9Hindi (hi)
प्रत्यक्ष बिक्री
0
10Armenian (hy)
Ուղիղ վաճառք
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Direct selling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Direct selling
394
2German (de)
Direktvertrieb
219
3French (fr)
Vente directe
100
4Chinese (zh)
直销
95
5Czech (cs)
Přímý prodej
52
6Russian (ru)
Прямые продажи
41
7Spanish (es)
Venta directa
29
8Thai (th)
การขายตรง
24
9Italian (it)
Vendita diretta
19
10Portuguese (pt)
Venda direta
19
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بيع مباشر
caCatalan
Venda directa
csCzech
Přímý prodej
deGerman
Direktvertrieb
enEnglish
Direct selling
esSpanish
Venta directa
euBasque
Zuzeneko salmenta
frFrench
Vente directe
hiHindi
प्रत्यक्ष बिक्री
hyArmenian
Ուղիղ վաճառք
itItalian
Vendita diretta
plPolish
Sprzedaż bezpośrednia
ptPortuguese
Venda direta
ruRussian
Прямые продажи
svSwedish
Direktförsäljning
thThai
การขายตรง
ukUkrainian
Прямі продажі
viVietnamese
Bán hàng trực tiếp
zhChinese
直销

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#62494
04.2013
Global:
#43268
11.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22932
07.2011
Global:
#28981
07.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Direct selling from Wikipedia articles about Multi-level marketing, Herbalife, Tesla US dealership disputes, Avon Products Inc. and Jim Rohn. Whereas reading the article about Direct selling people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Multi-level marketing, Direct marketing, Amway, Guanxi and Party plan.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 直销

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