The Following

Quality:

The Following - 2013 American crime thriller television series. This television series is the 418^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 446^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “The Following” in English Wikipedia has 52.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 446^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 418^th most popular in television series.

In June 2026 the article “The Following” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Following”, its content was written by 246 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 749 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Following is on the 446^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 418^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 311 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1449 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #119 in February 2013
• Global: #441 in April 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #71 in April 2013
• Global: #153 in April 2013

There are 25 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	Italian (it) The Following		62.2557
2	German (de) The Following		53.9132
3	English (en) The Following		52.3974
4	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		45.2529
5	Ukrainian (uk) Послідовники		41.2226
6	Catalan (ca) The Following		38.2296
7	Polish (pl) The Following		28.6762
8	Russian (ru) Последователи		27.0808
9	Hungarian (hu) Gyilkos hajsza		26.8999
10	Chinese (zh) 杀手信徒		23.5959

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Following		13 322 425
2	Italian (it) The Following		2 456 530
3	Spanish (es) The Following		1 665 288
4	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		1 087 816
5	German (de) The Following		959 146
6	Russian (ru) Последователи		824 366
7	Portuguese (pt) The Following		744 991
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・フォロイング		384 935
9	Dutch (nl) The Following		257 817
10	Polish (pl) The Following		117 335

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) The Following		24 746
2	Russian (ru) Последователи		1 669
3	German (de) The Following		1 251
4	Italian (it) The Following		991
5	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		802
6	Polish (pl) The Following		725
7	Spanish (es) The Following		621
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・フォロイング		589
9	Portuguese (pt) The Following		295
10	Dutch (nl) The Following		191

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Following		246
2	Italian (it) The Following		76
3	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		65
4	German (de) The Following		59
5	Spanish (es) The Following		40
6	Hebrew (he) המעקב		31
7	Portuguese (pt) The Following		27
8	Polish (pl) The Following		22
9	Russian (ru) Последователи		22
10	Dutch (nl) The Following		21

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) The Following		1
2	Persian (fa) پیروی (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Последователите		0
4	Catalan (ca) The Following		0
5	Czech (cs) Stoupenci zla		0
6	German (de) The Following		0
7	Spanish (es) The Following		0
8	Basque (eu) The Following		0
9	Finnish (fi) Pahan jäljillä		0
10	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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