The Wire

Quality:

The Wire - 2000s American crime drama television series. This television series is the 82^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 44^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article "The Wire" in English Wikipedia has 80.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 193 references and 33 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 985^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8461^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 44^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2377^th most popular in all topics.

The 82^nd most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4202^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5346^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "The Wire" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "The Wire", its content was written by 867 registered users of English Wikipedia (8461^st place) and edited by 2042 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Wire is on the 44^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 82^nd place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 1601 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4209 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #453 in March 2008
• Global: #2388 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #162 in March 2008
• Global: #592 in March 2008

There are 35 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 August 1, 2024 (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)		93.3333
3	German (de) The Wire		92.8
4	Tamil (ta) தி வயர்		92
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Wire		86.3147
6	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		85.5
7	Russian (ru) Прослушка		82.6829
8	English (en) The Wire		80.9
9	Japanese (ja) THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー		61.6629
10	Spanish (es) The Wire		56.792

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Wire		41 988 502
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		3 315 215
3	Spanish (es) The Wire		3 197 457
4	German (de) The Wire		2 822 359
5	Russian (ru) Прослушка		1 391 110
6	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		1 313 118
7	Portuguese (pt) The Wire		685 425
8	Dutch (nl) The Wire		487 057
9	Swedish (sv) The Wire		344 729
10	Polish (pl) Prawo ulicy		300 668

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		127 141
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		11 140
3	Russian (ru) Прослушка		10 221
4	Spanish (es) The Wire		9 751
5	German (de) The Wire		7 103
6	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		5 130
7	Arabic (ar) ذا واير (مسلسل)		3 531
8	Persian (fa) شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		2 722
9	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		2 535
10	Portuguese (pt) The Wire		2 007

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		867
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		178
3	German (de) The Wire		161
4	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		100
5	Spanish (es) The Wire		69
6	Hebrew (he) הסמויה		56
7	Dutch (nl) The Wire		56
8	Russian (ru) Прослушка		56
9	Norwegian (no) The Wire		54
10	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		53

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 Wire		4
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		3
3	Spanish (es) The Wire		2
4	Arabic (ar) ذا واير (مسلسل)		1
5	Catalan (ca) The Wire		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Дроти (телесеріал)		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Наркомрежа		0
8	Danish (da) The Wire		0
9	German (de) The Wire		0
10	Greek (el) 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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information