Perverse incentive

Quality:

Perverse incentive - incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers. Article “Perverse incentive” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 3 sections.

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 “Perverse incentive”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 409 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1262 in April 2026
• Global: #8634 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3771 in September 2021
• Global: #7223 in June 2016

There are 12 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	English (en) Perverse incentive		59.1038
2	Korean (ko) 비뚤어진 인센티브		45.107
3	Armenian (hy) Այլասերված խթան		34.0252
4	Simple English (simple) Perverse incentive		28.8713
5	Tamil (ta) கெடு வெகுமதி		25.4056
6	Norwegian (no) Perverst insentiv		25.1717
7	Hindi (hi) विकृत प्रोत्साहन		24.0022
8	Spanish (es) Incentivo perverso		22.9558
9	Arabic (ar) الحافز المنحرف		22.1844
10	Portuguese (pt) Incentivo perverso		21.6713

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perverse incentive		3 619 626
2	Dutch (nl) Perverse prikkel		37 470
3	Spanish (es) Incentivo perverso		28 603
4	Simple English (simple) Perverse incentive		13 463
5	Portuguese (pt) Incentivo perverso		8 368
6	Norwegian (no) Perverst insentiv		1 629
7	Tamil (ta) கெடு வெகுமதி		1 470
8	Arabic (ar) الحافز المنحرف		1 271
9	Hindi (hi) विकृत प्रोत्साहन		989
10	Korean (ko) 비뚤어진 인센티브		680

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) Perverse incentive		13 142
2	Spanish (es) Incentivo perverso		104
3	Portuguese (pt) Incentivo perverso		102
4	Simple English (simple) Perverse incentive		72
5	Dutch (nl) Perverse prikkel		65
6	Korean (ko) 비뚤어진 인센티브		39
7	Norwegian (no) Perverst insentiv		30
8	Tamil (ta) கெடு வெகுமதி		14
9	Indonesian (id) Insentif yang salah kaprah		12
10	Hindi (hi) विकृत प्रोत्साहन		9

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perverse incentive		344
2	Dutch (nl) Perverse prikkel		27
3	Spanish (es) Incentivo perverso		11
4	Simple English (simple) Perverse incentive		7
5	Norwegian (no) Perverst insentiv		5
6	Portuguese (pt) Incentivo perverso		4
7	Arabic (ar) الحافز المنحرف		3
8	Korean (ko) 비뚤어진 인센티브		3
9	Hindi (hi) विकृत प्रोत्साहन		2
10	Armenian (hy) Այլասերված խթան		1

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) Perverse incentive		4
2	Spanish (es) Incentivo perverso		2
3	Arabic (ar) الحافز المنحرف		0
4	Hindi (hi) विकृत प्रोत्साहन		0
5	Armenian (hy) Այլասերված խթան		0
6	Indonesian (id) Insentif yang salah kaprah		0
7	Korean (ko) 비뚤어진 인센티브		0
8	Dutch (nl) Perverse prikkel		0
9	Norwegian (no) Perverst insentiv		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Incentivo perverso		0

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

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