The X-Files

Quality:

The X-Files - American science fiction-drama television series. This television series is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 106^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “The X-Files” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 444 references and 33 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:

en

The 1896^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2925^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 106^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1796^th most popular in all topics.

The 2452^nd most popular in AI.

The 68^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4800^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3696^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9599^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The X-Files” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9599^th place).

Since the creation of article “The X-Files”, its content was written by 1365 registered users of English Wikipedia (2925^th place) and edited by 4735 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2452^nd place).

The X-Files is on the 106^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 2853 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15519 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39 in July 2001
• Global: #40 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51 in January 2016
• Global: #44 in January 2016

There are 50 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) The X-Files		100
2	Croatian (hr) Dosjei X		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The X-Files		93.1494
4	Spanish (es) The X-Files		91.7926
5	Italian (it) X-Files		87.6844
6	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		77.0745
7	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		72.9863
8	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		70.3412
9	Malay (ms) The X-Files		63.5553
10	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		58.4732

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The X-Files		32 636 155
2	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		6 705 047
3	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		5 336 153
4	Spanish (es) The X-Files		4 572 664
5	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		4 340 332
6	Italian (it) X-Files		4 307 257
7	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		4 074 163
8	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		1 579 030
9	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		1 421 982
10	Chinese (zh) X档案		968 825

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 X-Files		107 349
2	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		24 603
3	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		12 602
4	Spanish (es) The X-Files		10 836
5	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		10 577
6	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		9 731
7	Italian (it) X-Files		9 383
8	Chinese (zh) X档案		6 239
9	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		3 905
10	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		2 717

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The X-Files		1 365
2	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		416
3	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		395
4	Italian (it) X-Files		246
5	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		243
6	Spanish (es) The X-Files		228
7	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		181
8	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		146
9	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		129
10	Hebrew (he) תיקים באפלה		117

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 X-Files		9
2	Spanish (es) The X-Files		2
3	Arabic (ar) الملفات الغامضة		1
4	Catalan (ca) The X-Files		1
5	Persian (fa) پرونده‌های ایکس		1
6	Hebrew (he) תיקים באפלה		1
7	Croatian (hr) Dosjei X		1
8	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		1
9	Korean (ko) 엑스파일		1
10	Slovenian (sl) Dosjeji X		1

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

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