Film noir

Quality:

Film noir - film genre/style usually deployed in mystery and police procedural detective crime films. Article “Film noir” in English Wikipedia has 92.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 241 references and 30 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7170^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7561^st most popular in all topics.

The 9806^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Film noir” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Film noir”, its content was written by 771 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2548 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9806^th place).

The article is cited 3611 times in English Wikipedia (7433^rd place) and cited 18363 times in all languages (9061^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8 in May 2001
• Global: #9 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #249 in December 2016
• Global: #665 in December 2016

There are 43 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) Film noir		92.7815
2	German (de) Film noir		80
3	Greek (el) Φιλμ νουάρ		79.3692
4	Finnish (fi) Film noir		70.3906
5	Dutch (nl) Film noir		66.5149
6	Turkish (tr) Kara film		61.0157
7	Estonian (et) Film noir		53.8628
8	Russian (ru) Нуар		40.6259
9	Polish (pl) Film noir		33.9585
10	Italian (it) Film noir		33.7336

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Film noir		16 773 164
2	Russian (ru) Нуар		4 018 544
3	German (de) Film noir		2 016 242
4	Spanish (es) Cine negro		1 884 237
5	Japanese (ja) フィルム・ノワール		952 359
6	Polish (pl) Film noir		938 957
7	French (fr) Film noir		899 228
8	Portuguese (pt) Film noir		801 597
9	Italian (it) Film noir		620 102
10	Persian (fa) فیلم نوآر		314 460

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) Film noir		35 860
2	Russian (ru) Нуар		8 734
3	Japanese (ja) フィルム・ノワール		4 295
4	German (de) Film noir		3 669
5	Spanish (es) Cine negro		2 970
6	French (fr) Film noir		2 332
7	Polish (pl) Film noir		1 646
8	Italian (it) Film noir		1 482
9	Portuguese (pt) Film noir		1 268
10	Persian (fa) فیلم نوآر		1 229

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Film noir		771
2	German (de) Film noir		278
3	French (fr) Film noir		171
4	Russian (ru) Нуар		136
5	Dutch (nl) Film noir		112
6	Spanish (es) Cine negro		103
7	Italian (it) Film noir		87
8	Hebrew (he) פילם נואר		85
9	Japanese (ja) フィルム・ノワール		60
10	Finnish (fi) Film noir		58

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) Film noir		4
2	German (de) Film noir		2
3	Persian (fa) فیلم نوآر		1
4	French (fr) Film noir		1
5	Croatian (hr) Film noir		1
6	Arabic (ar) فيلم نوار		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Филм ноар		0
8	Catalan (ca) Cinema negre		0
9	Czech (cs) Film noir		0
10	Danish (da) Film noir		0

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

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