French drain

French drain - sub-surface drainage system. Article “French drain” in English Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.26 points.

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

Since the creation of article “French drain”, its content was written by 140 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 328 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 64 times in English Wikipedia and cited 464 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18246 in April 2004
• Global: #43898 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13573 in December 2018
• Global: #30811 in December 2018

There are 14 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	Swedish (sv) Täckdike		43.8747
2	English (en) French drain		43.0305
3	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		29.6353
4	Basque (eu) Drain		28.802
5	Persian (fa) زهکش فرانسوی		27.0163
6	Spanish (es) Desagüe francés		26.4734
7	Russian (ru) Дренажная труба		21.4765
8	Estonian (et) Dreen		20.237
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дрена		19.8288
10	Polish (pl) Drenaż francuski		18.7516

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

The most popular language versions of the article "French drain" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French drain		4 533 563
2	French (fr) Drain (assainissement)		173 991
3	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		158 499
4	Russian (ru) Дренажная труба		114 826
5	German (de) Sickerleitung		108 608
6	Swedish (sv) Täckdike		91 309
7	Italian (it) Drenaggio (idraulica)		61 852
8	Polish (pl) Drenaż francuski		54 174
9	Spanish (es) Desagüe francés		37 476
10	Estonian (et) Dreen		6 396

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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 "French drain" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French drain		19 870
2	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		851
3	French (fr) Drain (assainissement)		754
4	Russian (ru) Дренажная труба		541
5	Spanish (es) Desagüe francés		497
6	Polish (pl) Drenaż francuski		401
7	German (de) Sickerleitung		337
8	Swedish (sv) Täckdike		186
9	Italian (it) Drenaggio (idraulica)		98
10	Estonian (et) Dreen		22

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) French drain		140
2	Swedish (sv) Täckdike		43
3	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		35
4	French (fr) Drain (assainissement)		33
5	German (de) Sickerleitung		22
6	Italian (it) Drenaggio (idraulica)		18
7	Russian (ru) Дренажная труба		15
8	Polish (pl) Drenaż francuski		10
9	Basque (eu) Drain		5
10	Spanish (es) Desagüe francés		2

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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 "French drain" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) زهکش فرانسوی		2
2	German (de) Sickerleitung		0
3	English (en) French drain		0
4	Spanish (es) Desagüe francés		0
5	Estonian (et) Dreen		0
6	Basque (eu) Drain		0
7	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		0
8	French (fr) Drain (assainissement)		0
9	Italian (it) Drenaggio (idraulica)		0
10	Polish (pl) Drenaż francuski		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 "French drain" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Swedish (sv) Täckdike		96
2	French (fr) Drain (assainissement)		91
3	Italian (it) Drenaggio (idraulica)		87
4	English (en) French drain		64
5	Finnish (fi) Salaoja		48
6	Russian (ru) Дренажная труба		32
7	German (de) Sickerleitung		14
8	Estonian (et) Dreen		10
9	Ukrainian (uk) Дрена		9
10	Basque (eu) Drain		5

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#	Language	Value
de	German Sickerleitung
en	English French drain
es	Spanish Desagüe francés
et	Estonian Dreen
eu	Basque Drain
fa	Persian زهکش فرانسوی
fi	Finnish Salaoja
fr	French Drain (assainissement)
it	Italian Drenaggio (idraulica)
pl	Polish Drenaż francuski
ru	Russian Дренажная труба
sv	Swedish Täckdike
uk	Ukrainian Дрена
uz	Uzbek Drenaj quvurlari

Best Rank

English: #13573 12.2018

Global: #30811 12.2018

Best Rank

English: #18246 04.2004

Global: #43898 04.2004

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