Direct democracy

Quality:

Direct democracy - form of democracy where people decide on policy directly. Article “Direct democracy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3491^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7459^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6199^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9714^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Direct democracy”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7459^th place) and edited by 3247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6199^th place).

The article is cited 100 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11970 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #260 in February 2007
• Global: #1125 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #943 in September 2015
• Global: #7311 in October 2014

There are 49 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	Malay (ms) Demokrasi langsung		90
2	English (en) Direct democracy		71.1037
3	Dutch (nl) Directe democratie		64.6336
4	Thai (th) ประชาธิปไตยโดยตรง		63.5783
5	French (fr) Démocratie directe		61.6539
6	Greek (el) Άμεση δημοκρατία		60.9785
7	Croatian (hr) Izravna demokracija		53.9468
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пряма демократія		50.604
9	Basque (eu) Zuzeneko demokrazia		49.995
10	Portuguese (pt) Democracia direta		49.2826

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Direct democracy		7 794 640
2	Spanish (es) Democracia directa		2 869 376
3	German (de) Direkte Demokratie		1 641 852
4	Portuguese (pt) Democracia direta		1 145 068
5	Polish (pl) Demokracja bezpośrednia		1 031 069
6	Russian (ru) Прямая демократия		978 746
7	French (fr) Démocratie directe		970 690
8	Italian (it) Democrazia diretta		793 227
9	Japanese (ja) 直接民主主義		582 643
10	Swedish (sv) Direktdemokrati		458 403

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) Direct democracy		9 964
2	Russian (ru) Прямая демократия		1 562
3	Spanish (es) Democracia directa		1 405
4	German (de) Direkte Demokratie		1 374
5	French (fr) Démocratie directe		1 297
6	Japanese (ja) 直接民主主義		876
7	Polish (pl) Demokracja bezpośrednia		871
8	Italian (it) Democrazia diretta		791
9	Chinese (zh) 直接民主		566
10	Portuguese (pt) Democracia direta		497

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Direct democracy		802
2	German (de) Direkte Demokratie		371
3	French (fr) Démocratie directe		269
4	Spanish (es) Democracia directa		173
5	Italian (it) Democrazia diretta		169
6	Portuguese (pt) Democracia direta		114
7	Hebrew (he) דמוקרטיה ישירה		106
8	Swedish (sv) Direktdemokrati		102
9	Dutch (nl) Directe democratie		101
10	Polish (pl) Demokracja bezpośrednia		88

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	Arabic (ar) ديمقراطية مباشرة		1
2	German (de) Direkte Demokratie		1
3	English (en) Direct democracy		1
4	Basque (eu) Zuzeneko demokrazia		1
5	Hebrew (he) דמוקרטיה ישירה		1
6	Dutch (nl) Directe democratie		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Пряма демократія		1
8	Belarusian (be) Прамая дэмакратыя		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Пряка демокрация		0
10	Catalan (ca) Democràcia directa		0

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

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