Anthropic principle

Quality:

Anthropic principle - philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it. Article “Anthropic principle” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Anthropic principle”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1679 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1572 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1398 in October 2014
• Global: #604 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2265 in January 2023
• Global: #16118 in September 2023

There are 40 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	Portuguese (pt) Princípio antrópico		75.4805
2	English (en) Anthropic principle		68.7016
3	Esperanto (eo) Antropa principo		36.9987
4	Russian (ru) Антропный принцип		36.3125
5	German (de) Anthropisches Prinzip		34.6841
6	Polish (pl) Zasady antropiczne		34.1791
7	Belarusian (be) Антропны прынцып		29.8788
8	Chinese (zh) 人择原理		28.6033
9	French (fr) Principe anthropique		28.4574
10	Dutch (nl) Antropisch principe		28.1328

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Anthropic principle		4 986 384
2	Russian (ru) Антропный принцип		1 061 632
3	Spanish (es) Principio antrópico		848 021
4	French (fr) Principe anthropique		641 634
5	German (de) Anthropisches Prinzip		598 316
6	Japanese (ja) 人間原理		494 029
7	Italian (it) Principio antropico		381 025
8	Polish (pl) Zasady antropiczne		222 265
9	Chinese (zh) 人择原理		214 832
10	Portuguese (pt) Princípio antrópico		156 277

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) Anthropic principle		21 824
2	Russian (ru) Антропный принцип		3 828
3	Japanese (ja) 人間原理		1 449
4	French (fr) Principe anthropique		1 237
5	German (de) Anthropisches Prinzip		1 140
6	Spanish (es) Principio antrópico		1 129
7	Chinese (zh) 人择原理		1 048
8	Italian (it) Principio antropico		930
9	Portuguese (pt) Princípio antrópico		633
10	Polish (pl) Zasady antropiczne		550

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Anthropic principle		517
2	German (de) Anthropisches Prinzip		175
3	French (fr) Principe anthropique		149
4	Russian (ru) Антропный принцип		102
5	Italian (it) Principio antropico		96
6	Spanish (es) Principio antrópico		60
7	Chinese (zh) 人择原理		56
8	Polish (pl) Zasady antropiczne		55
9	Japanese (ja) 人間原理		46
10	Dutch (nl) Antropisch principe		45

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) Anthropic principle		3
2	Arabic (ar) مبدأ بشري		1
3	Czech (cs) Antropický princip		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Antropikus elv		1
5	Polish (pl) Zasady antropiczne		1
6	Belarusian (be) Антропны прынцып		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Антропен принцип		0
8	Catalan (ca) Principi antròpic		0
9	German (de) Anthropisches Prinzip		0
10	Greek (el) Ανθρωπική αρχή		0

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

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