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Information needs

Quality:

Information need - individual or group's desire to locate and obtain information to satisfy a conscious or unconscious need. Article “Information needs” in English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.7 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Information needs”, its content was written by 31 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 113 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #74371 in June 2015
  • Global: #60715 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #112865 in November 2022
  • Global: #192706 in November 2022

There are 12 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
1Finnish (fi)
Tiedontarve
39.0676
2German (de)
Informationsbedarf
29.2179
3Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
24.1817
4Catalan (ca)
Necessitat d'informació
21.1935
5Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
21.1591
6French (fr)
Besoin d'information
18.8371
7Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
14.7811
8English (en)
Information needs
13.267
9Uzbek (uz)
Axborot ehtiyojlari
12.6566
10Chinese (zh)
資訊需求
6.7893
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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 "Information needs" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information needs
338 328
2Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
35 324
3German (de)
Informationsbedarf
31 182
4French (fr)
Besoin d'information
27 693
5Chinese (zh)
資訊需求
10 454
6Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
8 187
7Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
7 365
8Danish (da)
Informationsbehov
6 422
9Uzbek (uz)
Axborot ehtiyojlari
4 924
10Finnish (fi)
Tiedontarve
2 836
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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 "Information needs" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Information needs
857
2Uzbek (uz)
Axborot ehtiyojlari
88
3Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
82
4Chinese (zh)
資訊需求
34
5French (fr)
Besoin d'information
31
6Catalan (ca)
Necessitat d'informació
26
7German (de)
Informationsbedarf
26
8Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
19
9Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
18
10Finnish (fi)
Tiedontarve
16
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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 "Information needs" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Information needs
31
2French (fr)
Besoin d'information
19
3German (de)
Informationsbedarf
18
4Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
8
5Danish (da)
Informationsbehov
7
6Chinese (zh)
資訊需求
7
7Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
6
8Catalan (ca)
Necessitat d'informació
4
9Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
4
10Czech (cs)
Informační potřeba
3
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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 "Information needs" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
0
2Catalan (ca)
Necessitat d'informació
0
3Czech (cs)
Informační potřeba
0
4Danish (da)
Informationsbehov
0
5German (de)
Informationsbedarf
0
6English (en)
Information needs
0
7Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
0
8Finnish (fi)
Tiedontarve
0
9French (fr)
Besoin d'information
0
10Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
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 "Information needs" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Informationsbedarf
26
2English (en)
Information needs
20
3Catalan (ca)
Necessitat d'informació
16
4Russian (ru)
Информационные потребности
12
5Arabic (ar)
حاجة المعلومات
9
6Czech (cs)
Informační potřeba
6
7Finnish (fi)
Tiedontarve
6
8Chinese (zh)
資訊需求
6
9Persian (fa)
نیاز اطلاعاتی
4
10Danish (da)
Informationsbehov
3
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حاجة المعلومات
caCatalan
Necessitat d'informació
csCzech
Informační potřeba
daDanish
Informationsbehov
deGerman
Informationsbedarf
enEnglish
Information needs
faPersian
نیاز اطلاعاتی
fiFinnish
Tiedontarve
frFrench
Besoin d'information
ruRussian
Информационные потребности
uzUzbek
Axborot ehtiyojlari
zhChinese
資訊需求

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#112865
11.2022
Global:
#192706
11.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#74371
06.2015
Global:
#60715
03.2004

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Information need from Wikipedia articles about Information retrieval, Web query, Information resource, Relevance and Need. Whereas reading the article about Information need people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Need, Relevance, Information science, Information and Information retrieval.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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