Friends

Quality:

This television series is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 46^th most popular television series in German Wikipedia. Article “Friends” in German Wikipedia has 71 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 33 references and 39 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 768^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 3369^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 46^th most popular in television series in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 329^th most popular in all topics.

The 481^st most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 8953^rd most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2042^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5637^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Friends” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5637^th place).

Since the creation of article “Friends”, its content was written by 421 registered users of German Wikipedia (3369^th place) and edited by 8246 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (481^st place).

Friends is on the 46^th place in local ranking of television series in German Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 599 times in German Wikipedia and cited 12087 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #202 in April 2007
• Global: #68 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #141 in October 2023
• Global: #45 in May 2021

There are 52 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	Portuguese (pt) Friends		100
2	Turkish (tr) Friends		100
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Những người bạn		99.5144
5	Slovak (sk) Priatelia (seriál)		98.5714
6	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		97.9965
7	Serbian (sr) Пријатељи (ТВ серија)		94.7368
8	Finnish (fi) Frendit		94.6439
9	English (en) Friends		93.9449
10	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		91.6231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friends		78 342 702
2	Spanish (es) Friends		12 125 693
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		10 560 163
4	French (fr) Friends		8 706 456
5	German (de) Friends		8 336 397
6	Italian (it) Friends		7 672 815
7	Portuguese (pt) Friends		6 029 056
8	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 160 906
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2 912 417
10	Chinese (zh) 老友记		2 545 656

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) Friends		135 759
2	Italian (it) Friends		28 127
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		17 806
4	French (fr) Friends		14 011
5	Spanish (es) Friends		12 454
6	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		10 156
7	German (de) Friends		8 380
8	Chinese (zh) 老友记		6 463
9	Persian (fa) فرندز		5 786
10	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 587

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friends		2 997
2	French (fr) Friends		569
3	Spanish (es) Friends		465
4	German (de) Friends		421
5	Hebrew (he) חברים		364
6	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		300
7	Italian (it) Friends		281
8	Portuguese (pt) Friends		229
9	Dutch (nl) Friends (sitcom)		218
10	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok (televíziós sorozat)		191

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	Urdu (ur) فرینڈز		5
2	German (de) Friends		3
3	English (en) Friends		3
4	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		2
5	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		2
6	Portuguese (pt) Friends		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dostlar (teleserial)		1
8	Catalan (ca) Friends		1
9	Greek (el) Τα Φιλαράκια		1
10	Finnish (fi) Frendit		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information