Peterprincipe

Quality:

The Peter Principle - book and concept by Laurence J. Peter that states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence". This book is the 137th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 118th most popular book in Dutch Wikipedia. Article "Peterprincipe" in Dutch Wikipedia has 4.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Dutch Wikipedia:
The 118th most popular in books in Dutch Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 137th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article "Peterprincipe", its content was written by 45 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 1212 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Peter Principle is on the 118th place in local ranking of books in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 137th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 344 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Dutch): #1539 in May 2006
  • Global: #3677 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Dutch): #7145 in March 2023
  • Global: #1831 in August 2018

There are 35 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
1Portuguese (pt)
Princípio de Peter
60.3845
2English (en)
Peter principle
47.9359
3German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
32.9192
4Danish (da)
Peter-princippet
31.6392
5French (fr)
Principe de Peter
26.4108
6Tamil (ta)
பீட்டர் கோட்பாடு
26.0717
7Catalan (ca)
Principi de Peter
25.3344
8Hungarian (hu)
Peter-elv
24.7671
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Peterov princip
23.6303
10Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
21.5258
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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 "Peterprincipe" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Peter principle
10 932 946
2French (fr)
Principe de Peter
2 735 704
3German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
2 536 507
4Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
1 345 012
5Russian (ru)
Принцип Питера
1 051 163
6Japanese (ja)
ピーターの法則
1 012 848
7Chinese (zh)
彼得原理
523 599
8Italian (it)
Principio di Peter
362 074
9Portuguese (pt)
Princípio de Peter
302 752
10Dutch (nl)
Peterprincipe
279 314
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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 "Peterprincipe" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Peter principle
42 870
2German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
11 477
3French (fr)
Principe de Peter
10 899
4Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
4 552
5Chinese (zh)
彼得原理
3 111
6Russian (ru)
Принцип Питера
3 044
7Italian (it)
Principio di Peter
2 939
8Japanese (ja)
ピーターの法則
2 854
9Portuguese (pt)
Princípio de Peter
1 467
10Dutch (nl)
Peterprincipe
1 224
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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 "Peterprincipe" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Peter principle
349
2German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
180
3French (fr)
Principe de Peter
171
4Russian (ru)
Принцип Питера
63
5Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
46
6Dutch (nl)
Peterprincipe
45
7Hebrew (he)
העיקרון הפיטרי
41
8Chinese (zh)
彼得原理
40
9Danish (da)
Peter-princippet
28
10Italian (it)
Principio di Peter
23
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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 "Peterprincipe" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
2
2German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
1
3French (fr)
Principe de Peter
1
4Italian (it)
Principio di Peter
1
5Portuguese (pt)
Princípio de Peter
1
6Russian (ru)
Принцип Питера
1
7Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Peterov princip
1
8Arabic (ar)
مبدأ بيتر
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Принцип на Питър
0
10Catalan (ca)
Principi de Peter
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 "Peterprincipe" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Peter principle
77
2Ukrainian (uk)
Принцип Пітера
35
3French (fr)
Principe de Peter
28
4German (de)
Peter-Prinzip
20
5Chinese (zh)
彼得原理
15
6Italian (it)
Principio di Peter
14
7Spanish (es)
Principio de Peter
13
8Hebrew (he)
העיקרון הפיטרי
13
9Japanese (ja)
ピーターの法則
12
10Arabic (ar)
مبدأ بيتر
11
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مبدأ بيتر
bgBulgarian
Принцип на Питър
caCatalan
Principi de Peter
csCzech
Peterův princip
daDanish
Peter-princippet
deGerman
Peter-Prinzip
enEnglish
Peter principle
esSpanish
Principio de Peter
euBasque
Peterren hatsarrea
faPersian
اصل پیتر
fiFinnish
Peterin periaate
frFrench
Principe de Peter
glGalician
Principio de Peter
heHebrew
העיקרון הפיטרי
huHungarian
Peter-elv
itItalian
Principio di Peter
jaJapanese
ピーターの法則
koKorean
피터의 법칙
laLatin
Lex Peter
nlDutch
Peterprincipe
noNorwegian
Peter-prinsippet
plPolish
Zasada Petera
ptPortuguese
Princípio de Peter
roRomanian
Principiul lui Peter
ruRussian
Принцип Питера
shSerbo-Croatian
Peterov princip
skSlovak
Peterov princíp
slSlovenian
Petrovo načelo
svSwedish
Peters princip
taTamil
பீட்டர் கோட்பாடு
trTurkish
Peter İlkesi
ukUkrainian
Принцип Пітера
urUrdu
پیٹر کا اصول
uzUzbek
Peter prinsipi
zhChinese
彼得原理

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#7145
03.2023
Global:
#1831
08.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#1539
05.2006
Global:
#3677
12.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Peter Principle from Wikipedia articles about Dunning–Kruger effect, Dilbert principle, Laurence J. Peter, Michael Scott and Parkinsons law. Whereas reading the article about The Peter Principle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Dilbert principle, Dunning–Kruger effect, Parkinsons law, Laurence J. Peter and Founders syndrome.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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