Waterfall model

Quality:

Waterfall model - Breakdown of projects into sequential phases, where each phase depends on the previous one. Article “Waterfall model” in English Wikipedia has 48.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 37 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.57 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Waterfall model” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Waterfall model”, its content was written by 430 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 329 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1687 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1795 in May 2003
• Global: #5384 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3161 in February 2015
• Global: #7011 in February 2015

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	Estonian (et) Koskmudel		70.613
2	English (en) Waterfall model		48.7727
3	Hungarian (hu) Vízesésmodell		39.1046
4	Catalan (ca) Model de desenvolupament en cascada		38.6466
5	Indonesian (id) Model air terjun		38.0856
6	Arabic (ar) نموذج الشلال		31.4831
7	Swedish (sv) Vattenfallsmodellen		29.3415
8	Norwegian (no) Fossefallmodellen		27.4537
9	Tamil (ta) அருவி மாதிரி		27.1956
10	Hindi (hi) वाटरफॉल मॉडल		26.2461

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Waterfall model		10 713 219
2	German (de) Wasserfallmodell		1 533 360
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo en cascada		1 333 658
4	Japanese (ja) ウォーターフォール・モデル		877 873
5	Russian (ru) Каскадная модель		869 126
6	Portuguese (pt) Modelo em cascata		475 294
7	Polish (pl) Model kaskadowy		342 330
8	Dutch (nl) Watervalmethode		281 298
9	Chinese (zh) 瀑布模型		216 277
10	Italian (it) Modello a cascata		209 335

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) Waterfall model		6 479
2	German (de) Wasserfallmodell		1 792
3	Russian (ru) Каскадная модель		674
4	French (fr) Modèle en cascade		556
5	Japanese (ja) ウォーターフォール・モデル		545
6	Polish (pl) Model kaskadowy		372
7	Chinese (zh) 瀑布模型		352
8	Spanish (es) Desarrollo en cascada		239
9	Portuguese (pt) Modelo em cascata		193
10	Danish (da) Vandfaldsmodellen		181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Waterfall model		430
2	German (de) Wasserfallmodell		135
3	Spanish (es) Desarrollo en cascada		90
4	Dutch (nl) Watervalmethode		61
5	Italian (it) Modello a cascata		60
6	Russian (ru) Каскадная модель		40
7	Portuguese (pt) Modelo em cascata		37
8	Japanese (ja) ウォーターフォール・モデル		35
9	Hebrew (he) מודל מפל המים		31
10	Danish (da) Vandfaldsmodellen		26

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	English (en) Waterfall model		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Şəlalə modeli		1
3	Danish (da) Vandfaldsmodellen		1
4	Korean (ko) 폭포수 모델		1
5	Chinese (zh) 瀑布模型		1
6	Arabic (ar) نموذج الشلال		0
7	Catalan (ca) Model de desenvolupament en cascada		0
8	Czech (cs) Vodopádový model		0
9	German (de) Wasserfallmodell		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Akvofala modelo		0

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

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