Well-ordering principle

Well-ordering principle - Statement that all sets of positive numbers contains a least element. Article “Well-ordering principle” in English Wikipedia has 14.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.76 points.

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 “Well-ordering principle”, its content was written by 61 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 197 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 419 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11660 in August 2003
• Global: #21540 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #156393 in August 2019
• Global: #240784 in August 2019

There are 11 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	English (en) Well-ordering principle		14.4975
2	Korean (ko) 정렬 원리		12.887
3	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		12.8109
4	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		11.3938
5	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		10.0987
6	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		7.1837
7	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da boa ordenação		6.8872
8	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		6.5368
9	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		6.5242
10	Finnish (fi) Hyvän järjestyksen periaate		1.1454

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Well-ordering principle" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Well-ordering principle		560 847
2	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		86 619
3	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		66 718
4	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da boa ordenação		51 317
5	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		29 943
6	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		21 319
7	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		15 840
8	Greek (el) Αρχή της καλής διάταξης		9 569
9	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		3 588
10	Korean (ko) 정렬 원리		2 731

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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 "Well-ordering principle" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Well-ordering principle		2 240
2	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		213
3	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		159
4	Korean (ko) 정렬 원리		142
5	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da boa ordenação		133
6	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		77
7	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		48
8	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		48
9	Greek (el) Αρχή της καλής διάταξης		21
10	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		15

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

Language versions of the article "Well-ordering principle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Well-ordering principle		61
2	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		29
3	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		19
4	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		18
5	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da boa ordenação		15
6	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		13
7	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		12
8	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		12
9	Greek (el) Αρχή της καλής διάταξης		10
10	Finnish (fi) Hyvän järjestyksen periaate		7

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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 "Well-ordering principle" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		1
2	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		1
3	Greek (el) Αρχή της καλής διάταξης		0
4	English (en) Well-ordering principle		0
5	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		0
6	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		0
7	Finnish (fi) Hyvän järjestyksen periaate		0
8	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		0
9	Korean (ko) 정렬 원리		0
10	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		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 "Well-ordering principle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Principio del buon ordinamento		220
2	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da boa ordenação		70
3	Polish (pl) Zasada dobrego uporządkowania		54
4	English (en) Well-ordering principle		20
5	Persian (fa) اصل خوش‌ترتیبی		18
6	Hebrew (he) עקרון הסדר הטוב		15
7	Spanish (es) Principio de buena ordenación		13
8	Swedish (sv) Välordningsaxiomet		4
9	Greek (el) Αρχή της καλής διάταξης		3
10	Finnish (fi) Hyvän järjestyksen periaate		1

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#	Language	Value
el	Greek Αρχή της καλής διάταξης
en	English Well-ordering principle
es	Spanish Principio de buena ordenación
fa	Persian اصل خوش‌ترتیبی
fi	Finnish Hyvän järjestyksen periaate
he	Hebrew עקרון הסדר הטוב
it	Italian Principio del buon ordinamento
ko	Korean 정렬 원리
pl	Polish Zasada dobrego uporządkowania
pt	Portuguese Princípio da boa ordenação
sv	Swedish Välordningsaxiomet

Best Rank

English: #156393 08.2019

Global: #240784 08.2019

Best Rank

English: #11660 08.2003

Global: #21540 08.2003

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