Pyramid scheme

Quality:

Pyramid scheme - type of unsustainable business model. Article “Pyramid scheme” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Pyramid scheme”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2498 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2193 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #118 in August 2011
• Global: #1989 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2665 in June 2020
• Global: #2597 in December 2008

There are 42 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	Norwegian (no) Pyramidespill		98.8235
2	English (en) Pyramid scheme		72.9704
3	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		59.9682
4	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		50.5638
5	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		48.6699
6	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		47.8943
7	German (de) Schneeballsystem		47.2184
8	Greek (el) Επιχειρηματικό σχήμα πυραμίδας		46.015
9	Malay (ms) Skim piramid		43.6238
10	Catalan (ca) Frau piramidal		39.078

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pyramid scheme		11 120 395
2	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		2 893 191
3	German (de) Schneeballsystem		2 799 321
4	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		2 539 910
5	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		1 397 199
6	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		1 392 517
7	Swedish (sv) Pyramidspel		905 380
8	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		836 057
9	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		681 729
10	Arabic (ar) تسويق هرمي		442 430

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) Pyramid scheme		23 761
2	German (de) Schneeballsystem		3 481
3	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		2 964
4	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		2 486
5	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		1 603
6	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		1 100
7	Persian (fa) ترفند هرمی		1 091
8	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		749
9	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		575
10	Turkish (tr) Piramit sistemi		511

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pyramid scheme		744
2	German (de) Schneeballsystem		287
3	French (fr) Vente pyramidale		218
4	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		136
5	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		107
6	Dutch (nl) Piramidespel		97
7	Chinese (zh) 層壓式推銷		82
8	Hebrew (he) תרמית פירמידה		78
9	Japanese (ja) 無限連鎖講		76
10	Portuguese (pt) Esquema em pirâmide		73

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) Pyramid scheme		4
2	German (de) Schneeballsystem		1
3	Spanish (es) Esquema de pirámide		1
4	Basque (eu) Salmenta piramidal		1
5	Croatian (hr) Piramida sreće		1
6	Italian (it) Marketing piramidale		1
7	Arabic (ar) تسويق هرمي		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Piramida sxemi		0
9	Belarusian (be) Фінансавая піраміда		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Финансова пирамида		0

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

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