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Original position

Quality:

Original position - state of nature where individuals determine the structure of society ignorant of their position. Article “Original position” in English Wikipedia has 33.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.78 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.

In June 2025 the article “Original position” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Original position”, its content was written by 236 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 350 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 386 times in English Wikipedia and cited 533 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #5328 in October 2003
  • Global: #13672 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #31125 in December 2014
  • Global: #57017 in June 2020

There are 10 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)
Original position
33.8864
2Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
29.588
3Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
28.2366
4Spanish (es)
Posición original
22.5073
5Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
22.1048
6French (fr)
Position originelle
16.56
7German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
15.4125
8Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
9.8617
9Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
7.4192
10Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
3.7632
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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 "Original position" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Original position
3 384 155
2German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
280 374
3Spanish (es)
Posición original
272 217
4Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
107 810
5French (fr)
Position originelle
25 016
6Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
14 562
7Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
10 162
8Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
3 497
9Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
1 009
10Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
173
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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 "Original position" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Original position
7 874
2German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
919
3Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
873
4Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
672
5Spanish (es)
Posición original
288
6French (fr)
Position originelle
237
7Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
153
8Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
54
9Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
45
10Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
38
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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 "Original position" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Original position
236
2German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
48
3Spanish (es)
Posición original
20
4Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
19
5Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
10
6French (fr)
Position originelle
9
7Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
3
8Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
2
9Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
2
10Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
1
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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 "Original position" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Original position
1
2Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
1
3German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
0
4Spanish (es)
Posición original
0
5Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
0
6French (fr)
Position originelle
0
7Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
0
8Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
0
9Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
0
10Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
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 "Original position" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Original position
386
2Persian (fa)
وضع نخستین
71
3Spanish (es)
Posición original
23
4German (de)
Schleier des Nichtwissens
20
5Korean (ko)
원초적 입장
11
6French (fr)
Position originelle
6
7Indonesian (id)
Posisi asali
6
8Japanese (ja)
無知のヴェール
5
9Dutch (nl)
Sluier van onwetendheid
3
10Finnish (fi)
Alkuasema
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Schleier des Nichtwissens
enEnglish
Original position
esSpanish
Posición original
faPersian
وضع نخستین
fiFinnish
Alkuasema
frFrench
Position originelle
idIndonesian
Posisi asali
jaJapanese
無知のヴェール
koKorean
원초적 입장
nlDutch
Sluier van onwetendheid

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#31125
12.2014
Global:
#57017
06.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5328
10.2003
Global:
#13672
10.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Original position from Wikipedia articles about John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Michael Sandel, Thought experiment and Absurdism. Whereas reading the article about Original position people most often go to Wikipedia articles on John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Utilitarianism, Robert Nozick and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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