Friends

Quality:

Friends - American sitcom (1994–2004). This television series is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 10^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “Friends” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 256 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 246^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 177^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 10^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 312^th most popular in all topics.

The 474^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3108^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2457^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4928^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Friends” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 29 authors in all languages (4928^th place).

Since the creation of article “Friends”, its content was written by 2971 registered users of English Wikipedia (177^th place) and edited by 8180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (474^th place).

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

The article is cited 2394 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12002 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #79 in January 2007
• Global: #68 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38 in May 2021
• Global: #45 in May 2021

There are 51 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	Portuguese (pt) Friends		100
2	Slovak (sk) Priatelia (seriál)		100
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Những người bạn		99.6871
5	Turkish (tr) Friends		99.6394
6	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		97.868
7	Finnish (fi) Frendit		94.8331
8	Serbian (sr) Пријатељи (ТВ серија)		94.7368
9	English (en) Friends		93.7761
10	Tamil (ta) பிரண்ட்ஸ் (தொலைக்காட்சித் தொடர்)		92

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friends		76 460 675
2	Spanish (es) Friends		11 923 170
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		9 498 451
4	French (fr) Friends		8 465 858
5	German (de) Friends		8 125 486
6	Italian (it) Friends		7 328 541
7	Portuguese (pt) Friends		5 964 222
8	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 095 149
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2 797 344
10	Chinese (zh) 老友记		2 456 092

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		137 742
2	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		21 890
3	French (fr) Friends		13 522
4	Italian (it) Friends		12 285
5	German (de) Friends		12 210
6	Spanish (es) Friends		12 161
7	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		7 401
8	Chinese (zh) 老友记		7 318
9	Persian (fa) فرندز		4 917
10	Portuguese (pt) Friends		4 372

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friends		2 971
2	French (fr) Friends		556
3	Spanish (es) Friends		459
4	German (de) Friends		415
5	Hebrew (he) חברים		357
6	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		295
7	Italian (it) Friends		275
8	Portuguese (pt) Friends		228
9	Dutch (nl) Friends (sitcom)		214
10	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok		188

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) Friends		3
2	Hebrew (he) חברים		3
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		3
4	Italian (it) Friends		3
5	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		2
6	Czech (cs) Přátelé		2
7	Persian (fa) فرندز		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok		2
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2
10	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		2

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

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