Pyramid scheme

Quality:

Pyramid scheme - type of unsustainable business model. Article "Pyramid scheme" in English Wikipedia has 76.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 85 references and 12 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9870^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2025 the article "Pyramid scheme" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Pyramid scheme", its content was written by 735 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2471 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 659 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2354 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #930 in November 2002
• Global: #1993 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2134 in December 2008
• Global: #2602 in December 2008

There are 42 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (no) Pyramidespill		100
2	English (en) Pyramid scheme		76.1249
3	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		60.3257
4	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		50.6253
5	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		48.485
6	German (de) Schneeballsystem		48.0077
7	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		46.8425
8	Greek (el) Επιχειρηματικό σχήμα πυραμίδας		45.607
9	Malay (ms) Skim piramid		42.9843
10	Czech (cs) Pyramidové schéma		39.9163

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pyramid scheme		10 906 380
2	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		2 852 347
3	German (de) Schneeballsystem		2 707 337
4	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		2 484 740
5	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		1 377 362
6	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		1 377 093
7	Swedish (sv) Pyramidspel		900 649
8	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		813 099
9	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		668 242
10	Arabic (ar) تسويق هرمي		433 121

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pyramid scheme		19 292
2	German (de) Schneeballsystem		6 010
3	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		4 282
4	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		2 544
5	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		2 376
6	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		1 844
7	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		1 451
8	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		1 259
9	Arabic (ar) تسويق هرمي		941
10	Dutch (nl) Piramidespel		891

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pyramid scheme		735
2	German (de) Schneeballsystem		279
3	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		216
4	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		131
5	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		105
6	Dutch (nl) Piramidespel		94
7	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		79
8	Hebrew (he) תרמית פירמידה		77
9	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		75
10	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		72

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Belarusian (be) Фінансавая піраміда		1
2	English (en) Pyramid scheme		1
3	Norwegian (no) Pyramidespill		1
4	Arabic (ar) تسويق هرمي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Piramida sxemi		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Финансова пирамида		0
7	Catalan (ca) Frau piramidal		0
8	Czech (cs) Pyramidové schéma		0
9	Danish (da) Pyramideforetagende		0
10	German (de) Schneeballsystem		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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