Popular initiative

Citizens' initiative - means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote. Article “Popular initiative” in English Wikipedia has 64.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 54 references and 17 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.

Since the creation of article “Popular initiative”, its content was written by 236 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1183 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3212 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2575 in December 2002
• Global: #4991 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #256649 in October 2008
• Global: #46071 in February 2013

There are 29 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) Popular initiative		64.145
2	French (fr) Initiative populaire		54.3294
3	Finnish (fi) Kansalaisaloite		52.5084
4	Esperanto (eo) Popoliniciato		30.4147
5	Catalan (ca) Iniciativa legislativa popular		28.572
6	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		26.9604
7	Swedish (sv) Medborgarinitiativ		25.622
8	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		24.2527
9	Romanian (ro) Inițiativa cetățenească		24.1285
10	Greek (el) Λαϊκή νομοθετική πρωτοβουλία		22.7489

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Popular initiative" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		1 796 835
2	Portuguese (pt) Iniciativa popular		339 708
3	French (fr) Initiative populaire		325 378
4	Italian (it) Legge di iniziativa popolare		311 641
5	English (en) Popular initiative		272 854
6	Finnish (fi) Kansalaisaloite		198 183
7	Dutch (nl) Raadgevend referendum		153 084
8	Arabic (ar) مبادرة		133 856
9	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		132 214
10	Malay (ms) Inisiatif		115 674

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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 "Popular initiative" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Popular initiative		1 474
2	Dutch (nl) Raadgevend referendum		700
3	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		420
4	Italian (it) Legge di iniziativa popolare		376
5	French (fr) Initiative populaire		296
6	Chinese (zh) 提案		197
7	Finnish (fi) Kansalaisaloite		144
8	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		137
9	Japanese (ja) 発案		80
10	Polish (pl) Inicjatywa obywatelska		58

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Popular initiative		236
2	French (fr) Initiative populaire		125
3	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		94
4	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		85
5	Finnish (fi) Kansalaisaloite		65
6	Italian (it) Legge di iniziativa popolare		35
7	Dutch (nl) Raadgevend referendum		32
8	Catalan (ca) Iniciativa legislativa popular		25
9	Portuguese (pt) Iniciativa popular		25
10	Swedish (sv) Medborgarinitiativ		25

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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 "Popular initiative" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Ініціатива		1
2	Arabic (ar) مبادرة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Iniciativa legislativa popular		0
4	Czech (cs) Lidová iniciativa		0
5	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		0
6	Greek (el) Λαϊκή νομοθετική πρωτοβουλία		0
7	English (en) Popular initiative		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Popoliniciato		0
9	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		0
10	Persian (fa) پیشگامی شهروندان		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 "Popular initiative" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Popular initiative		1 183
2	French (fr) Initiative populaire		637
3	Armenian (hy) Ժողովրդական նախաձեռնության հանրաքվե		172
4	Spanish (es) Iniciativa legislativa popular		140
5	Finnish (fi) Kansalaisaloite		137
6	German (de) Volksinitiative (Deutschland)		94
7	Persian (fa) پیشگامی شهروندان		88
8	Portuguese (pt) Iniciativa popular		85
9	Dutch (nl) Raadgevend referendum		84
10	Catalan (ca) Iniciativa legislativa popular		70

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مبادرة
ca	Catalan Iniciativa legislativa popular
cs	Czech Lidová iniciativa
de	German Volksinitiative (Deutschland)
el	Greek Λαϊκή νομοθετική πρωτοβουλία
en	English Popular initiative
eo	Esperanto Popoliniciato
es	Spanish Iniciativa legislativa popular
fa	Persian پیشگامی شهروندان
fi	Finnish Kansalaisaloite
fr	French Initiative populaire
gl	Galician Iniciativa popular
hy	Armenian Ժողովրդական նախաձեռնության հանրաքվե
it	Italian Legge di iniziativa popolare
ja	Japanese 発案
kk	Kazakh Азаматтық бастамалар
ko	Korean 발안제
ms	Malay Inisiatif
nl	Dutch Raadgevend referendum
no	Norwegian Innbyggerinitiativ
pl	Polish Inicjatywa obywatelska
pt	Portuguese Iniciativa popular
ro	Romanian Inițiativa cetățenească
ru	Russian Гражданские инициативы
sr	Serbian Inicijativa
sv	Swedish Medborgarinitiativ
tr	Turkish Halk teşebbüsü
uk	Ukrainian Ініціатива
zh	Chinese 提案

Best Rank

English: #256649 10.2008

Global: #46071 02.2013

Best Rank

English: #2575 12.2002

Global: #4991 12.2002

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