The Wire

Quality:

The Wire - American crime drama television series (2002–2008). This television series is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 26^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “The Wire” in English Wikipedia has 77.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 197 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.58 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 552^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 5297^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 26^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1613^th most popular in all topics.

The 63^rd most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2044^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2858^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “The Wire” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Wire”, its content was written by 1111 registered users of English Wikipedia (5297^th place) and edited by 2357 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Wire is on the 26^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 2091 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5073 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #202 in March 2008
• Global: #1554 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93 in March 2008
• Global: #343 in March 2008

There are 36 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	French (fr) Sur écoute		100
2	Croatian (hr) Žica (televizijska serija)		95.5556
3	Tamil (ta) தி வயர்		91.25
4	German (de) The Wire		91.1609
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Wire		86.6667
6	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		85.5
7	Russian (ru) Прослушка		82.9585
8	English (en) The Wire		77.2513
9	Japanese (ja) THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー		60.6102
10	Spanish (es) The Wire		56.3702

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Wire		58 971 009
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		3 601 081
3	Spanish (es) The Wire		3 445 985
4	German (de) The Wire		3 003 874
5	Russian (ru) Прослушка		1 791 984
6	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		1 452 563
7	Portuguese (pt) The Wire		724 714
8	Dutch (nl) The Wire		532 857
9	Swedish (sv) The Wire		376 763
10	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		348 567

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 Wire		162 929
2	Russian (ru) Прослушка		12 576
3	French (fr) Sur écoute		7 838
4	German (de) The Wire		7 159
5	Spanish (es) The Wire		6 865
6	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		5 368
7	Persian (fa) شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		3 100
8	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		2 303
9	Turkish (tr) The Wire		2 279
10	Polish (pl) Prawo ulicy		1 889

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Wire		1 111
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		194
3	German (de) The Wire		170
4	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		102
5	Spanish (es) The Wire		75
6	Hebrew (he) הסמויה		61
7	Dutch (nl) The Wire		59
8	Russian (ru) Прослушка		59
9	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		56
10	Polish (pl) Prawo ulicy		43

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	Spanish (es) The Wire		2
2	Arabic (ar) ذا واير (مسلسل)		1
3	English (en) The Wire		1
4	French (fr) Sur écoute		1
5	Norwegian (no) The Wire		1
6	Turkish (tr) The Wire		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Наркомрежа		0
8	Catalan (ca) The Wire		0
9	Czech (cs) The Wire – Špína Baltimoru		0
10	Danish (da) The Wire		0

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

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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