Sturgeon's law

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Sturgeon's law

Quality:

Sturgeon's law - adage cited as "ninety percent of everything is crap". Article “Sturgeon's law” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Sturgeon's law”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 396 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #3063 in December 2022
  • Global: #1213 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #5018 in May 2024
  • Global: #30629 in April 2008

There are 19 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
46.298
2English (en)
Sturgeon's law
31.3479
3Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Стерджена
26.2018
4German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
24.4675
5Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
22.8836
6Dutch (nl)
Sturgeons openbaring
21.2921
7Malay (ms)
Hukum Sturgeon
20.484
8Vietnamese (vi)
Định luật Sturgeon
19.3889
9Romanian (ro)
Legea lui Sturgeon
18.9606
10Korean (ko)
스터전의 법칙
18.9248
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Sturgeon's law" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sturgeon's law
2 593 707
2Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
395 514
3Japanese (ja)
スタージョンの法則
337 867
4Spanish (es)
Ley de Sturgeon
159 624
5French (fr)
Loi de Sturgeon
32 110
6Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
28 377
7Chinese (zh)
史特金定律
26 735
8Italian (it)
Legge di Sturgeon
24 216
9Persian (fa)
قانون استرجن
10 205
10German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
9 993
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Sturgeon's law" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sturgeon's law
7 289
2Japanese (ja)
スタージョンの法則
707
3Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
426
4Simple English (simple)
Sturgeon's law
301
5Spanish (es)
Ley de Sturgeon
199
6German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
180
7French (fr)
Loi de Sturgeon
156
8Chinese (zh)
史特金定律
100
9Italian (it)
Legge di Sturgeon
96
10Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
75
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Sturgeon's law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sturgeon's law
202
2Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
33
3Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
25
4Spanish (es)
Ley de Sturgeon
19
5Italian (it)
Legge di Sturgeon
19
6Japanese (ja)
スタージョンの法則
16
7French (fr)
Loi de Sturgeon
15
8German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
10
9Chinese (zh)
史特金定律
10
10Swedish (sv)
Sturgeons lag
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Sturgeon's law" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Korean (ko)
스터전의 법칙
1
2Romanian (ro)
Legea lui Sturgeon
1
3Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
1
4German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
0
5English (en)
Sturgeon's law
0
6Spanish (es)
Ley de Sturgeon
0
7Basque (eu)
Sturgeonen legea
0
8Persian (fa)
قانون استرجن
0
9Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
0
10French (fr)
Loi de Sturgeon
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Sturgeon's law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Sturgeon's law
54
2Swedish (sv)
Sturgeons lag
11
3Spanish (es)
Ley de Sturgeon
9
4Romanian (ro)
Legea lui Sturgeon
9
5Japanese (ja)
スタージョンの法則
8
6Russian (ru)
Закон Старджона
6
7Finnish (fi)
Sturgeonin laki
5
8Ukrainian (uk)
Закон Стерджена
5
9German (de)
Sturgeons Gesetz
4
10Italian (it)
Legge di Sturgeon
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Sturgeons Gesetz
enEnglish
Sturgeon's law
esSpanish
Ley de Sturgeon
euBasque
Sturgeonen legea
faPersian
قانون استرجن
fiFinnish
Sturgeonin laki
frFrench
Loi de Sturgeon
itItalian
Legge di Sturgeon
jaJapanese
スタージョンの法則
koKorean
스터전의 법칙
msMalay
Hukum Sturgeon
nlDutch
Sturgeons openbaring
roRomanian
Legea lui Sturgeon
ruRussian
Закон Старджона
simpleSimple English
Sturgeon's law
svSwedish
Sturgeons lag
ukUkrainian
Закон Стерджена
viVietnamese
Định luật Sturgeon
zhChinese
史特金定律

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5018
05.2024
Global:
#30629
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#3063
12.2022
Global:
#1213
05.2002

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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