Mediocrity principle

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Mediocrity principle

Quality:

Mediocrity principle - philosophical concept. Article “Mediocrity principle” in English Wikipedia has 28.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.5 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Mediocrity principle”, its content was written by 159 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 336 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 188 times in English Wikipedia and cited 906 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5836 in September 2003
  • Global: #14016 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #103392 in September 2010
  • Global: #130354 in September 2010

There are 17 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
1English (en)
Mediocrity principle
28.5498
2Esperanto (eo)
Principo de mezumoj
26.4724
3Indonesian (id)
Prinsip medioker
23.9452
4Hebrew (he)
עקרון הממוצעות
23.5033
5Chinese (zh)
平庸原理
21.413
6Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da mediocridade
21.4028
7Korean (ko)
보통 원리
15.1821
8Slovenian (sl)
Načelo povprečnosti
15.1496
9Arabic (ar)
مبدأ العادية
10.6046
10Romanian (ro)
Principiul mediocrității
10.1437
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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 "Mediocrity principle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Mediocrity principle
815 242
2Spanish (es)
Principio de mediocridad
235 668
3Russian (ru)
Принцип заурядности
102 472
4Chinese (zh)
平庸原理
78 421
5Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da mediocridade
50 098
6French (fr)
Principe de médiocrité
45 817
7Italian (it)
Principio di mediocrità
37 292
8Arabic (ar)
مبدأ العادية
11 005
9Romanian (ro)
Principiul mediocrității
7 947
10Turkish (tr)
Sıradanlık ilkesi
7 732
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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 "Mediocrity principle" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Mediocrity principle
3 101
2Chinese (zh)
平庸原理
354
3Spanish (es)
Principio de mediocridad
249
4French (fr)
Principe de médiocrité
142
5Russian (ru)
Принцип заурядности
139
6Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da mediocridade
67
7Italian (it)
Principio di mediocrità
53
8Slovenian (sl)
Načelo povprečnosti
31
9Turkish (tr)
Sıradanlık ilkesi
24
10Indonesian (id)
Prinsip medioker
17
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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 "Mediocrity principle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Mediocrity principle
159
2Spanish (es)
Principio de mediocridad
33
3French (fr)
Principe de médiocrité
27
4Chinese (zh)
平庸原理
25
5Italian (it)
Principio di mediocrità
17
6Russian (ru)
Принцип заурядности
16
7Hebrew (he)
עקרון הממוצעות
12
8Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da mediocridade
12
9Romanian (ro)
Principiul mediocrității
8
10Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип пересічності
6
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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 "Mediocrity principle" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
مبدأ العادية
0
2English (en)
Mediocrity principle
0
3Esperanto (eo)
Principo de mezumoj
0
4Spanish (es)
Principio de mediocridad
0
5French (fr)
Principe de médiocrité
0
6Hebrew (he)
עקרון הממוצעות
0
7Indonesian (id)
Prinsip medioker
0
8Italian (it)
Principio di mediocrità
0
9Korean (ko)
보통 원리
0
10Dutch (nl)
Middelmatigheidsprincipe
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 "Mediocrity principle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Mediocrity principle
188
2French (fr)
Principe de médiocrité
127
3Russian (ru)
Принцип заурядности
98
4Chinese (zh)
平庸原理
98
5Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип пересічності
83
6Arabic (ar)
مبدأ العادية
79
7Romanian (ro)
Principiul mediocrității
75
8Italian (it)
Principio di mediocrità
60
9Portuguese (pt)
Princípio da mediocridade
38
10Turkish (tr)
Sıradanlık ilkesi
30
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ العادية
enEnglish
Mediocrity principle
eoEsperanto
Principo de mezumoj
esSpanish
Principio de mediocridad
frFrench
Principe de médiocrité
heHebrew
עקרון הממוצעות
idIndonesian
Prinsip medioker
itItalian
Principio di mediocrità
koKorean
보통 원리
nlDutch
Middelmatigheidsprincipe
ptPortuguese
Princípio da mediocridade
roRomanian
Principiul mediocrității
ruRussian
Принцип заурядности
slSlovenian
Načelo povprečnosti
trTurkish
Sıradanlık ilkesi
ukUkrainian
Принцип пересічності
zhChinese
平庸原理

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#103392
09.2010
Global:
#130354
09.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5836
09.2003
Global:
#14016
09.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Mediocrity principle from Wikipedia articles about Fermi paradox, Rare Earth hypothesis, Extraterrestrial life, Copernican principle and Great Filter. Whereas reading the article about Mediocrity principle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Copernican principle, Anthropic principle, Heuristic, German tank problem and Doomsday argument.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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