Ponzi scheme

Quality:

Ponzi scheme - fraudulent investment scheme that pays earlier investors with proceeds from later investors. Article “Ponzi scheme” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Uzbek 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 4220^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9309^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3983^rd most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 970^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ponzi scheme” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (970^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ponzi scheme”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9309^th place) and edited by 2357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2603 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #672 in February 2014
• Global: #38 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #198 in October 2010
• Global: #21 in December 2008

There are 44 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	Uzbek (uz) Moliyaviy piramida		68.1246
2	English (en) Ponzi scheme		61.9462
3	Russian (ru) Финансовая пирамида		48.4592
4	Malay (ms) Skim Ponzi		44.2621
5	Catalan (ca) Sistema de Ponzi		43.5146
6	Hebrew (he) הונאת פונזי		39.0339
7	Norwegian (no) Ponzi-svindel		35.9962
8	Spanish (es) Esquema Ponzi		35.3691
9	Slovak (sk) Ponziho schéma		35.1979
10	Polish (pl) Piramida finansowa		34.212

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ponzi scheme		25 518 303
2	French (fr) Système de Ponzi		3 459 106
3	Spanish (es) Esquema Ponzi		3 219 304
4	Italian (it) Schema Ponzi		3 007 420
5	Russian (ru) Финансовая пирамида		2 823 470
6	Chinese (zh) 龐氏騙局		2 044 062
7	Japanese (ja) ポンジ・スキーム		1 528 450
8	Polish (pl) Piramida finansowa		1 008 574
9	Portuguese (pt) Esquema Ponzi		867 177
10	Dutch (nl) Ponzifraude		526 128

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) Ponzi scheme		34 722
2	French (fr) Système de Ponzi		9 682
3	Italian (it) Schema Ponzi		7 234
4	Japanese (ja) ポンジ・スキーム		5 228
5	Chinese (zh) 龐氏騙局		4 932
6	Russian (ru) Финансовая пирамида		4 836
7	Spanish (es) Esquema Ponzi		4 172
8	Polish (pl) Piramida finansowa		1 413
9	Persian (fa) ترفند پانزی		1 323
10	Portuguese (pt) Esquema Ponzi		1 183

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ponzi scheme		823
2	French (fr) Système de Ponzi		249
3	Russian (ru) Финансовая пирамида		200
4	Spanish (es) Esquema Ponzi		139
5	Italian (it) Schema Ponzi		100
6	Chinese (zh) 龐氏騙局		75
7	Hebrew (he) הונאת פונזי		71
8	Polish (pl) Piramida finansowa		70
9	Persian (fa) ترفند پانزی		68
10	Dutch (nl) Ponzifraude		58

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) Ponzi scheme		6
2	Simple English (simple) Ponzi scheme		2
3	Arabic (ar) سلسلة بونزي		1
4	Spanish (es) Esquema Ponzi		1
5	Japanese (ja) ポンジ・スキーム		1
6	Romanian (ro) Schemă Ponzi		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Maliyyə piramidası		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Схема на Понци		0
9	Catalan (ca) Sistema de Ponzi		0
10	Czech (cs) Ponziho schéma		0

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

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