Inverted pyramid (journalism)

Inverted pyramid - communication of major details before minor details. Article “Inverted pyramid (journalism)” in English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Inverted pyramid (journalism)”, its content was written by 111 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 356 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 197 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10335 in June 2003
• Global: #5178 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #83075 in March 2020
• Global: #50871 in June 2021

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 倒金字塔结构		25.8783
2	Persian (fa) هرم وارونه		25.6203
3	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		24.446
4	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		22.9001
5	Arabic (ar) هرم مقلوب		22.8378
6	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		22.5321
7	Turkish (tr) Ters Piramit		16.5591
8	Japanese (ja) 逆ピラミッド		14.6353
9	Danish (da) Nyhedstrekanten		12.8751
10	Azerbaijani (az) Tərs piramida		8.3175

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Inverted pyramid (journalism)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		819 343
2	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		709 605
3	Hindi (hi) उलटा पिरामिड शैली		178 892
4	Portuguese (pt) Pirâmide invertida		165 327
5	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		143 714
6	Danish (da) Nyhedstrekanten		108 660
7	Chinese (zh) 倒金字塔结构		93 356
8	Arabic (ar) هرم مقلوب		38 091
9	Persian (fa) هرم وارونه		27 455
10	French (fr) Pyramide inversée (journalisme)		16 041

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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 "Inverted pyramid (journalism)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		4 270
2	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		848
3	Chinese (zh) 倒金字塔结构		322
4	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		212
5	Portuguese (pt) Pirâmide invertida		211
6	French (fr) Pyramide inversée (journalisme)		148
7	Turkish (tr) Ters Piramit		103
8	Arabic (ar) هرم مقلوب		75
9	Japanese (ja) 逆ピラミッド		68
10	Persian (fa) هرم وارونه		66

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		111
2	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		59
3	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		44
4	Portuguese (pt) Pirâmide invertida		17
5	Danish (da) Nyhedstrekanten		15
6	Esperanto (eo) Piramida stilo		13
7	Hebrew (he) פירמידה הפוכה (תקשורת)		13
8	Hindi (hi) उलटा पिरामिड शैली		13
9	Chinese (zh) 倒金字塔结构		12
10	Norwegian (no) Omvendt pyramide		10

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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 "Inverted pyramid (journalism)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) هرم مقلوب		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Tərs piramida		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Обърната пирамида		0
4	Danish (da) Nyhedstrekanten		0
5	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		0
6	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Piramida stilo		0
8	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		0
9	Persian (fa) هرم وارونه		0
10	French (fr) Pyramide inversée (journalisme)		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 "Inverted pyramid (journalism)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Portuguese (pt) Pirâmide invertida		95
2	English (en) Inverted pyramid (journalism)		29
3	German (de) Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide		15
4	Spanish (es) Pirámide invertida		15
5	Persian (fa) هرم وارونه		10
6	Norwegian (no) Omvendt pyramide		8
7	Arabic (ar) هرم مقلوب		7
8	Chinese (zh) 倒金字塔结构		5
9	French (fr) Pyramide inversée (journalisme)		4
10	Danish (da) Nyhedstrekanten		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هرم مقلوب
az	Azerbaijani Tərs piramida
bg	Bulgarian Обърната пирамида
da	Danish Nyhedstrekanten
de	German Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide
en	English Inverted pyramid (journalism)
eo	Esperanto Piramida stilo
es	Spanish Pirámide invertida
fa	Persian هرم وارونه
fr	French Pyramide inversée (journalisme)
he	Hebrew פירמידה הפוכה (תקשורת)
hi	Hindi उलटा पिरामिड शैली
ja	Japanese 逆ピラミッド
lt	Lithuanian Apversta piramidė
no	Norwegian Omvendt pyramide
pt	Portuguese Pirâmide invertida
tr	Turkish Ters Piramit
uk	Ukrainian Перевернута піраміда
zh	Chinese 倒金字塔结构

Best Rank

English: #83075 03.2020

Global: #50871 06.2021

Best Rank

English: #10335 06.2003

Global: #5178 01.2002

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