The Wire

Quality:

The Wire - 2000s American crime drama television series. This television series is the 82nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 44th 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:
The 985th most popular in English Wikipedia.
The 8461st most editable in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2377th most popular in all topics.
The 82nd most popular in television series.
Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 4202nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 5346th 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 (8461st place) and edited by 2042 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

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

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Sur écoute
100
2Croatian (hr)
Žica (televizijska serija)
93.3333
3German (de)
The Wire
92.8
4Tamil (ta)
தி வயர்
92
5Serbo-Croatian (sh)
The Wire
86.3147
6Chinese (zh)
火线重案组
85.5
7Russian (ru)
Прослушка
82.6829
8English (en)
The Wire
80.9
9Japanese (ja)
THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー
61.6629
10Spanish (es)
The Wire
56.792
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Wire" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Wire
41 988 502
2French (fr)
Sur écoute
3 315 215
3Spanish (es)
The Wire
3 197 457
4German (de)
The Wire
2 822 359
5Russian (ru)
Прослушка
1 391 110
6Italian (it)
The Wire (serie televisiva)
1 313 118
7Portuguese (pt)
The Wire
685 425
8Dutch (nl)
The Wire
487 057
9Swedish (sv)
The Wire
344 729
10Polish (pl)
Prawo ulicy
300 668
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "The Wire" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Wire
127 141
2French (fr)
Sur écoute
11 140
3Russian (ru)
Прослушка
10 221
4Spanish (es)
The Wire
9 751
5German (de)
The Wire
7 103
6Italian (it)
The Wire (serie televisiva)
5 130
7Arabic (ar)
ذا واير (مسلسل)
3 531
8Persian (fa)
شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)
2 722
9Chinese (zh)
火线重案组
2 535
10Portuguese (pt)
The Wire
2 007
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Wire" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Wire
867
2French (fr)
Sur écoute
178
3German (de)
The Wire
161
4Italian (it)
The Wire (serie televisiva)
100
5Spanish (es)
The Wire
69
6Hebrew (he)
הסמויה
56
7Dutch (nl)
The Wire
56
8Russian (ru)
Прослушка
56
9Norwegian (no)
The Wire
54
10Chinese (zh)
火线重案组
53
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "The Wire" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Wire
4
2French (fr)
Sur écoute
3
3Spanish (es)
The Wire
2
4Arabic (ar)
ذا واير (مسلسل)
1
5Catalan (ca)
The Wire
1
6Ukrainian (uk)
Дроти (телесеріал)
1
7Bulgarian (bg)
Наркомрежа
0
8Danish (da)
The Wire
0
9German (de)
The Wire
0
10Greek (el)
The Wire
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Wire" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Wire
1 601
2French (fr)
Sur écoute
391
3Russian (ru)
Прослушка
255
4German (de)
The Wire
199
5Spanish (es)
The Wire
159
6Polish (pl)
Prawo ulicy
150
7Italian (it)
The Wire (serie televisiva)
148
8Chinese (zh)
火线重案组
148
9Portuguese (pt)
The Wire
143
10Hebrew (he)
הסמויה
103
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ذا واير (مسلسل)
bgBulgarian
Наркомрежа
caCatalan
The Wire
daDanish
The Wire
deGerman
The Wire
elGreek
The Wire
enEnglish
The Wire
esSpanish
The Wire
euBasque
The Wire
faPersian
شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)
fiFinnish
Langalla
frFrench
Sur écoute
glGalician
The Wire
heHebrew
הסמויה
hrCroatian
Žica (televizijska serija)
huHungarian
Drót (televíziós sorozat)
idIndonesian
The Wire
itItalian
The Wire (serie televisiva)
jaJapanese
THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー
koKorean
더 와이어
msMalay
The Wire
nlDutch
The Wire
noNorwegian
The Wire
plPolish
Prawo ulicy
ptPortuguese
The Wire
ruRussian
Прослушка
shSerbo-Croatian
The Wire
simpleSimple English
The Wire
skSlovak
The Wire
srSerbian
Жица (ТВ серија)
svSwedish
The Wire
taTamil
தி வயர்
trTurkish
The Wire
ukUkrainian
Дроти (телесеріал)
zhChinese
火线重案组

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#162
03.2008
Global:
#592
03.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#453
03.2008
Global:
#2388
03.2008

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Wire from Wikipedia articles about Michael K. Williams, Idris Elba, Lance Reddick, Dominic West and David Simon. Whereas reading the article about The Wire people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of The Wire episodes, List of The Wire characters, Dominic West, David Simon and John Doman.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: The Wire

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