Principle

Quality:

Principle - guiding rule or inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws observed in nature. Article "Principle" in English Wikipedia has 38.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 10 references and 11 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Principle" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Principle", its content was written by 145 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 388 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4932 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #15510 in July 2013
  • Global: #3778 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #9818 in May 2011
  • Global: #12646 in May 2011

There are 38 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 August 1, 2024 (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)
Principle
38.8017
2Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип
36.8042
3Russian (ru)
Принцип
33.5963
4French (fr)
Principe (philosophie)
31.0564
5Greek (el)
Αρχή
30.712
6Persian (fa)
اصل
30.0693
7Croatian (hr)
Načelo
26.8816
8Hindi (hi)
जड़सूत्र
23.8991
9Romanian (ro)
Principiu
23.2302
10Finnish (fi)
Periaate
23.1675
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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 "Principle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Principio
3 052 999
2English (en)
Principle
2 948 018
3Russian (ru)
Принцип
1 356 275
4German (de)
Prinzip
822 794
5Portuguese (pt)
Princípio
607 074
6Indonesian (id)
Prinsip
441 563
7Japanese (ja)
原理
278 782
8Arabic (ar)
مبدأ
238 538
9Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип
188 385
10Italian (it)
Principio
184 099
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Principle" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Principle
6 697
2Russian (ru)
Принцип
3 279
3Spanish (es)
Principio
2 145
4Indonesian (id)
Prinsip
1 639
5German (de)
Prinzip
1 332
6Chinese (zh)
原理
1 181
7Portuguese (pt)
Princípio
891
8Japanese (ja)
原理
785
9Arabic (ar)
مبدأ
633
10Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип
525
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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 "Principle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Principle
145
2German (de)
Prinzip
108
3Russian (ru)
Принцип
63
4Spanish (es)
Principio
56
5French (fr)
Principe (philosophie)
48
6Japanese (ja)
原理
37
7Portuguese (pt)
Princípio
28
8Norwegian (no)
Prinsipp
24
9Italian (it)
Principio
23
10Chinese (zh)
原理
22
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Principle" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Principle
2
2Russian (ru)
Принцип
1
3Arabic (ar)
مبدأ
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Prinsip
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Принцип
0
6Czech (cs)
Princip
0
7Danish (da)
Princip
0
8German (de)
Prinzip
0
9Greek (el)
Αρχή
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Principo
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 "Principle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Persian (fa)
اصل
636
2Serbian (sr)
Принцип
423
3English (en)
Principle
388
4Portuguese (pt)
Princípio
297
5German (de)
Prinzip
236
6Russian (ru)
Принцип
199
7Turkish (tr)
İlke
195
8Chinese (zh)
原理
189
9Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип
183
10Czech (cs)
Princip
171
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ
azAzerbaijani
Prinsip
bgBulgarian
Принцип
csCzech
Princip
daDanish
Princip
deGerman
Prinzip
elGreek
Αρχή
enEnglish
Principle
eoEsperanto
Principo
esSpanish
Principio
etEstonian
Printsiip
euBasque
Printzipio
faPersian
اصل
fiFinnish
Periaate
frFrench
Principe (philosophie)
hiHindi
जड़सूत्र
hrCroatian
Načelo
hyArmenian
Սկզբունք
idIndonesian
Prinsip
itItalian
Principio
jaJapanese
原理
kaGeorgian
პრინციპი
kkKazakh
Қағида
koKorean
원리
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Prinsipp
noNorwegian
Prinsipp
ptPortuguese
Princípio
roRomanian
Principiu
ruRussian
Принцип
simpleSimple English
Value (personal and cultural)
skSlovak
Princíp (filozofia)
slSlovenian
Načelo
srSerbian
Принцип
svSwedish
Princip
trTurkish
İlke
ukUkrainian
Принцип
uzUzbek
Prinsip
zhChinese
原理

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9818
05.2011
Global:
#12646
05.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#15510
07.2013
Global:
#3778
06.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Principle from Wikipedia articles about Constitution, Rights, Primeiro Comando da Capital, Occams razor and Wikipedia article. Whereas reading the article about Principle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Law, Axiom, Principle, Scientific law and Wikipedia article.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 原理
zh: 原理
fa: اصل
tr: İlke
ko: 원리

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