Need for Speed

Quality:

Need for Speed - racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts. This video game is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 7^th most popular video game in German Wikipedia. Article “Need for Speed” in German Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 3580^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1962^nd most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in video games in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2340^th most popular in all topics.

The 3883^rd most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 8467^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7329^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Need for Speed” was edited by 4 authors in German Wikipedia (8467^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Need for Speed”, its content was written by 496 registered users of German Wikipedia (1962^nd place) and edited by 3987 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3883^rd place).

Need for Speed is on the 7^th place in local ranking of video games in German Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 97 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2754 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #21 in November 2006
• Global: #637 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #495 in November 2010
• Global: #961 in March 2014

There are 45 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	English (en) Need for Speed		85.4701
2	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		81.8182
3	Tamil (ta) நீட் ஃபார் ஸ்பீடு		80
4	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		78.6025
5	Ukrainian (uk) Need for Speed (серія ігор)		73.0739
6	Hebrew (he) Need for Speed		59.7222
7	Korean (ko) 니드 포 스피드		57.5235
8	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		51.7281
9	German (de) Need for Speed		34.5
10	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		33.8249

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Need for Speed		24 884 822
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		11 635 236
3	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		4 669 905
4	German (de) Need for Speed		3 985 136
5	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		2 636 560
6	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		2 365 745
7	Italian (it) Need for Speed		1 726 994
8	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		1 353 639
9	French (fr) Need for Speed		1 251 978
10	Turkish (tr) Need for Speed		923 806

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) Need for Speed		61 668
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		32 694
3	German (de) Need for Speed		7 736
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		7 219
5	French (fr) Need for Speed		4 304
6	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		4 121
7	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		3 909
8	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードシリーズ		2 753
9	Italian (it) Need for Speed		2 634
10	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		2 630

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Need for Speed		1 019
2	German (de) Need for Speed		496
3	Russian (ru) Need for Speed		245
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		233
5	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed		194
6	Italian (it) Need for Speed		163
7	French (fr) Need for Speed		157
8	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		106
9	Polish (pl) Need for Speed		99
10	Chinese (zh) 极品飞车系列		93

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	German (de) Need for Speed		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed		3
3	English (en) Need for Speed		2
4	Spanish (es) Need for Speed		1
5	Korean (ko) 니드 포 스피드		1
6	Arabic (ar) نيد فور سبيد		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Need for Speed (oyun seriyası)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Need for Speed		0
9	Catalan (ca) Need for Speed (saga de videojocs)		0
10	Czech (cs) Need for Speed		0

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

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