Wet van Goodhart

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Wet van Goodhart

Quality:

Goodhart's law - adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Article “Wet van Goodhart” in Dutch Wikipedia has 6.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Dutch) language version.

Since the creation of article “Wet van Goodhart”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 342 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 266 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Dutch): #9997 in November 2025
  • Global: #3730 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Dutch): #32689 in June 2026
  • Global: #14877 in September 2013

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Goodhart's law
32.8727
2Finnish (fi)
Goodhartin laki
29.9187
3Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Гудгарта
28.7146
4Russian (ru)
Закон Гудхарта
27.4334
5Chinese (zh)
古德哈特定律
25.453
6German (de)
Goodharts Gesetz
24.0378
7Serbian (sr)
Гудхартов закон
23.2227
8Japanese (ja)
グッドハートの法則
18.3813
9Arabic (ar)
قانون جودهارت
17.1779
10French (fr)
Loi de Goodhart
17.121
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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 "Wet van Goodhart" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Goodhart's law
3 094 373
2Russian (ru)
Закон Гудхарта
188 391
3French (fr)
Loi de Goodhart
130 502
4German (de)
Goodharts Gesetz
71 200
5Spanish (es)
Ley de Goodhart
53 389
6Polish (pl)
Prawo Goodharta
51 622
7Chinese (zh)
古德哈特定律
45 034
8Portuguese (pt)
Lei de Goodhart
17 022
9Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Гудгарта
9 254
10Czech (cs)
Goodhartovo pravidlo
7 718
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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 June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Wet van Goodhart" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Goodhart's law
49 498
2French (fr)
Loi de Goodhart
3 921
3German (de)
Goodharts Gesetz
2 720
4Russian (ru)
Закон Гудхарта
1 927
5Japanese (ja)
グッドハートの法則
1 778
6Chinese (zh)
古德哈特定律
1 190
7Spanish (es)
Ley de Goodhart
1 067
8Polish (pl)
Prawo Goodharta
853
9Dutch (nl)
Wet van Goodhart
470
10Italian (it)
Legge di Goodhart
360
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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 "Wet van Goodhart" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Goodhart's law
154
2German (de)
Goodharts Gesetz
54
3French (fr)
Loi de Goodhart
23
4Russian (ru)
Закон Гудхарта
22
5Hebrew (he)
חוק גודהארט
13
6Czech (cs)
Goodhartovo pravidlo
10
7Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Гудгарта
9
8Polish (pl)
Prawo Goodharta
8
9Chinese (zh)
古德哈特定律
6
10Catalan (ca)
Llei de Goodhart
5
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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 June 2026

Language versions of the article "Wet van Goodhart" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
قانون جودهارت
1
2English (en)
Goodhart's law
1
3Persian (fa)
قانون گودهارت
1
4Italian (it)
Legge di Goodhart
1
5Japanese (ja)
グッドハートの法則
1
6Russian (ru)
Закон Гудхарта
1
7Catalan (ca)
Llei de Goodhart
0
8Czech (cs)
Goodhartovo pravidlo
0
9German (de)
Goodharts Gesetz
0
10Spanish (es)
Ley de Goodhart
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 "Wet van Goodhart" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Goodhart's law
79
2Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Гудгарта
71
3French (fr)
Loi de Goodhart
12
4Japanese (ja)
グッドハートの法則
12
5Spanish (es)
Ley de Goodhart
11
6Persian (fa)
قانون گودهارت
11
7Chinese (zh)
古德哈特定律
9
8Arabic (ar)
قانون جودهارت
8
9Catalan (ca)
Llei de Goodhart
7
10Czech (cs)
Goodhartovo pravidlo
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قانون جودهارت
caCatalan
Llei de Goodhart
csCzech
Goodhartovo pravidlo
deGerman
Goodharts Gesetz
enEnglish
Goodhart's law
esSpanish
Ley de Goodhart
faPersian
قانون گودهارت
fiFinnish
Goodhartin laki
frFrench
Loi de Goodhart
heHebrew
חוק גודהארט
itItalian
Legge di Goodhart
jaJapanese
グッドハートの法則
nlDutch
Wet van Goodhart
plPolish
Prawo Goodharta
ptPortuguese
Lei de Goodhart
roRomanian
Legea lui Goodhart
ruRussian
Закон Гудхарта
srSerbian
Гудхартов закон
trTurkish
Goodhart yasası
ukUkrainian
Закон Гудгарта
zhChinese
古德哈特定律

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#32689
06.2026
Global:
#14877
09.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Dutch:
#9997
11.2025
Global:
#3730
12.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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