Parkinson's Law

Parkinson's law - adage that work expands to fill the time available. This book is the 437^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 540^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Parkinson's Law” in English Wikipedia has 35 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 8 sections.

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 2026 the article “Parkinson's Law” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Parkinson's Law”, its content was written by 231 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 904 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Parkinson's law is on the 540^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 437^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 274 times in English Wikipedia and cited 646 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #512 in September 2002
• Global: #1126 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24014 in January 2015
• Global: #24979 in October 2018

There are 33 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, 2026 (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	English (en) Parkinson's Law		35.0337
2	Basque (eu) Parkinsonen Legea		28.3492
3	Danish (da) Parkinsons lov		27.5585
4	Russian (ru) Законы Паркинсона		26.6676
5	Azerbaijani (az) Parkinson qanunu		22.7865
6	Greek (el) Νόμος του Πάρκινσον		22.4119
7	Korean (ko) 파킨슨의 법칙		22.0165
8	Hungarian (hu) Parkinson törvénye		21.2271
9	Hebrew (he) חוק פרקינסון		20.9127
10	Polish (pl) Prawo Parkinsona		20.7454

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Parkinson's Law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Parkinson's Law		5 219 921
2	Russian (ru) Законы Паркинсона		1 347 011
3	German (de) Parkinsonsche Gesetze		1 151 243
4	Japanese (ja) パーキンソンの法則		811 954
5	Spanish (es) Ley de Parkinson		606 417
6	French (fr) Loi de Parkinson		517 361
7	Polish (pl) Prawo Parkinsona		321 285
8	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Parkinson		216 427
9	Chinese (zh) 帕金森定律		158 250
10	Swedish (sv) Parkinsons lag		137 087

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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 "Parkinson's Law" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Parkinson's Law		18 151
2	German (de) Parkinsonsche Gesetze		3 841
3	Japanese (ja) パーキンソンの法則		2 328
4	Russian (ru) Законы Паркинсона		2 185
5	French (fr) Loi de Parkinson		1 360
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Parkinson		1 267
7	Chinese (zh) 帕金森定律		1 018
8	Polish (pl) Prawo Parkinsona		822
9	Italian (it) La legge di Parkinson		425
10	Hebrew (he) חוק פרקינסון		391

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

Language versions of the article "Parkinson's Law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Parkinson's Law		231
2	German (de) Parkinsonsche Gesetze		97
3	French (fr) Loi de Parkinson		85
4	Russian (ru) Законы Паркинсона		64
5	Dutch (nl) Wet van Parkinson		44
6	Hebrew (he) חוק פרקינסון		42
7	Hungarian (hu) Parkinson törvénye		32
8	Japanese (ja) パーキンソンの法則		29
9	Spanish (es) Ley de Parkinson		27
10	Polish (pl) Prawo Parkinsona		22

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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 "Parkinson's Law" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Parkinson's Law		4
2	Arabic (ar) قانون باركنسون		1
3	Japanese (ja) パーキンソンの法則		1
4	Dutch (nl) Wet van Parkinson		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Parkinsonov zakon		1
6	Chinese (zh) 帕金森定律		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Parkinson qanunu		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Закон на Паркинсон		0
9	Danish (da) Parkinsons lov		0
10	German (de) Parkinsonsche Gesetze		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 "Parkinson's Law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Parkinson's Law		274
2	Japanese (ja) パーキンソンの法則		126
3	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Паркінсона		38
4	Russian (ru) Законы Паркинсона		29
5	German (de) Parkinsonsche Gesetze		19
6	French (fr) Loi de Parkinson		15
7	Hebrew (he) חוק פרקינסון		15
8	Swedish (sv) Parkinsons lag		13
9	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Parkinson		10
10	Arabic (ar) قانون باركنسون		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قانون باركنسون
az	Azerbaijani Parkinson qanunu
bg	Bulgarian Закон на Паркинсон
da	Danish Parkinsons lov
de	German Parkinsonsche Gesetze
el	Greek Νόμος του Πάρκινσον
en	English Parkinson's Law
eo	Esperanto Leĝo de Parkinson
es	Spanish Ley de Parkinson
et	Estonian Parkinsoni seadus
eu	Basque Parkinsonen Legea
fa	Persian قانون پارکینسون
fi	Finnish Parkinsonin laki
fr	French Loi de Parkinson
he	Hebrew חוק פרקינסון
hu	Hungarian Parkinson törvénye
hy	Armenian Պարկինսոնի օրենք
id	Indonesian Kaidah Parkinson
it	Italian La legge di Parkinson
ja	Japanese パーキンソンの法則
ko	Korean 파킨슨의 법칙
la	Latin Lex Parkinson
lt	Lithuanian Parkinsono taisyklė
nl	Dutch Wet van Parkinson
no	Norwegian Parkinsons lov
pl	Polish Prawo Parkinsona
pt	Portuguese Lei de Parkinson
ru	Russian Законы Паркинсона
sh	Serbo-Croatian Parkinsonov zakon
sv	Swedish Parkinsons lag
tr	Turkish Parkinson yasası
uk	Ukrainian Закон Паркінсона
zh	Chinese 帕金森定律

Best Rank

English: #24014 01.2015

Global: #24979 10.2018

Best Rank

English: #512 09.2002

Global: #1126 09.2002

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