Journalism sourcing

Source - term in journalism referring to a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information. Article “Journalism sourcing” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.44 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Journalism sourcing”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 319 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 875 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2787 in September 2022
• Global: #21166 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #44163 in April 2023
• Global: #79173 in September 2009

There are 13 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) Source (journalism)		46.0147
2	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		35.4288
3	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		30.9768
4	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		26.8083
5	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		25.5666
6	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		25.0861
7	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		24.121
8	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		18.8836
9	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		18.724
10	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		18.558

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Journalism sourcing" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		1 475 421
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		739 184
3	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		155 085
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		41 351
5	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		18 934
6	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		9 970
7	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		8 007
8	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		4 361
9	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		4 231
10	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		4 132

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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 "Journalism sourcing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		3 601
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		354
3	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		169
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		64
5	Simple English (simple) Journalism sourcing		55
6	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		51
7	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		49
8	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		40
9	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		30
10	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		24

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

Language versions of the article "Journalism sourcing" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		177
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		41
3	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		27
4	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		23
5	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		9
6	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		8
7	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		8
8	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		6
9	Polish (pl) Źródło (dziennikarstwo)		6
10	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		5

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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 "Journalism sourcing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		1
2	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		1
3	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		1
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		0
6	Danish (da) Kilde (journalistik)		0
7	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		0
8	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		0
9	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		0
10	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		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 "Journalism sourcing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Source (journalism)		401
2	Portuguese (pt) Fonte (jornalismo)		116
3	Persian (fa) منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)		90
4	Arabic (ar) مصدر (صحافة)		88
5	Catalan (ca) Font periodística		62
6	Spanish (es) Fuente periodística		45
7	Hebrew (he) מקור (עיתונות)		22
8	Norwegian (no) Kilde (journalistikk)		20
9	Greek (el) Δημοσιογραφική πηγή		13
10	Korean (ko) 소스 (언론)		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مصدر (صحافة)
ca	Catalan Font periodística
da	Danish Kilde (journalistik)
el	Greek Δημοσιογραφική πηγή
en	English Source (journalism)
es	Spanish Fuente periodística
fa	Persian منابع (روزنامه‌نگاری)
he	Hebrew מקור (עיתונות)
ko	Korean 소스 (언론)
no	Norwegian Kilde (journalistikk)
pl	Polish Źródło (dziennikarstwo)
pt	Portuguese Fonte (jornalismo)
simple	Simple English Journalism sourcing

Best Rank

Simple English: #44163 04.2023

Global: #79173 09.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #2787 09.2022

Global: #21166 05.2004

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