Lead paragraph

Lead paragraph - introductory summary part of a text such as a news article. Article “Lead paragraph” in English Wikipedia has 36.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Lead paragraph”, its content was written by 171 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 556 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 70 times in English Wikipedia and cited 562 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16408 in March 2015
• Global: #6149 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #129949 in September 2013
• Global: #55496 in October 2013

There are 22 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	Spanish (es) Entradilla		42.2498
2	English (en) Lead paragraph		36.7839
3	Polish (pl) Lead		33.473
4	Hungarian (hu) Lead (újságírás)		26.1414
5	German (de) Lead-Stil		25.514
6	Norwegian (no) Ingress		22.5309
7	Finnish (fi) Ingressi		22.1044
8	Swedish (sv) Ingress		21.7701
9	Greek (el) Εισαγωγική παράγραφος		21.473
10	Arabic (ar) فقرة افتتاحية		17.8017

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lead paragraph" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Portuguese (pt) Lide (jornalismo)		1 032 412
2	English (en) Lead paragraph		777 776
3	French (fr) Chapeau (presse écrite)		513 622
4	Spanish (es) Entradilla		474 239
5	Swedish (sv) Ingress		302 215
6	Polish (pl) Lead		224 133
7	Russian (ru) Лид (журналистика)		206 193
8	German (de) Lead-Stil		192 210
9	Finnish (fi) Ingressi		159 026
10	Norwegian (no) Ingress		152 208

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lead paragraph" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lead paragraph		2 821
2	French (fr) Chapeau (presse écrite)		847
3	Portuguese (pt) Lide (jornalismo)		777
4	Russian (ru) Лид (журналистика)		337
5	Finnish (fi) Ingressi		255
6	Spanish (es) Entradilla		217
7	Polish (pl) Lead		214
8	Czech (cs) Perex		198
9	German (de) Lead-Stil		173
10	Swedish (sv) Ingress		133

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

Language versions of the article "Lead paragraph" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lead paragraph		171
2	French (fr) Chapeau (presse écrite)		60
3	Portuguese (pt) Lide (jornalismo)		54
4	German (de) Lead-Stil		48
5	Spanish (es) Entradilla		35
6	Norwegian (no) Ingress		31
7	Polish (pl) Lead		24
8	Finnish (fi) Ingressi		23
9	Czech (cs) Perex		21
10	Swedish (sv) Ingress		21

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

Language versions of the article "Lead paragraph" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Lead		2
2	Arabic (ar) فقرة افتتاحية		0
3	Catalan (ca) Entrada (text)		0
4	Czech (cs) Perex		0
5	Danish (da) Manchet (skrift)		0
6	German (de) Lead-Stil		0
7	Greek (el) Εισαγωγική παράγραφος		0
8	English (en) Lead paragraph		0
9	Spanish (es) Entradilla		0
10	Estonian (et) Juhtlõik		0

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

Language versions of the article "Lead paragraph" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Lide (jornalismo)		115
2	Swedish (sv) Ingress		79
3	Russian (ru) Лид (журналистика)		73
4	English (en) Lead paragraph		70
5	Catalan (ca) Entrada (text)		61
6	Danish (da) Manchet (skrift)		60
7	French (fr) Chapeau (presse écrite)		24
8	German (de) Lead-Stil		14
9	Spanish (es) Entradilla		14
10	Polish (pl) Lead		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فقرة افتتاحية
ca	Catalan Entrada (text)
cs	Czech Perex
da	Danish Manchet (skrift)
de	German Lead-Stil
el	Greek Εισαγωγική παράγραφος
en	English Lead paragraph
es	Spanish Entradilla
et	Estonian Juhtlõik
fi	Finnish Ingressi
fr	French Chapeau (presse écrite)
hu	Hungarian Lead (újságírás)
hy	Armenian Լիդ (լրագրություն)
kk	Kazakh Лид (журналистика)
nl	Dutch Lead (inleiding)
no	Norwegian Ingress
pl	Polish Lead
pt	Portuguese Lide (jornalismo)
ru	Russian Лид (журналистика)
sk	Slovak Per extensum (tlač)
sv	Swedish Ingress
uk	Ukrainian Лід (журналістика)

Best Rank

English: #129949 09.2013

Global: #55496 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #16408 03.2015

Global: #6149 10.2001

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