The Wire

Quality:

The Wire - 2000s American crime drama television series. This television series is the 89^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 50^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “The Wire” in English Wikipedia has 80.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 194 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.97 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 1011^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8678^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 50^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2402^nd most popular in all topics.

The 89^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3492^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4126^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Wire” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Wire”, its content was written by 881 registered users of English Wikipedia (8678^th place) and edited by 2099 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Wire is on the 50^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 89^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 1609 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4422 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #452 in March 2008
• Global: #2390 in March 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #161 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 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	French (fr) Sur écoute		100
2	Croatian (hr) Žica (televizijska serija)		95.5556
3	German (de) The Wire		92.5061
4	Tamil (ta) தி வயர்		92
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Wire		86.6016
6	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		85.5
7	Russian (ru) Прослушка		82.7322
8	English (en) The Wire		80.7088
9	Japanese (ja) THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー		60.9112
10	Spanish (es) The Wire		57.4722

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Wire		43 371 129
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		3 463 248
3	Spanish (es) The Wire		3 303 873
4	German (de) The Wire		2 894 793
5	Russian (ru) Прослушка		1 546 117
6	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		1 370 197
7	Portuguese (pt) The Wire		707 936
8	Dutch (nl) The Wire		505 098
9	Swedish (sv) The Wire		357 862
10	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		317 798

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		129 247
2	Russian (ru) Прослушка		12 039
3	Turkish (tr) The Wire		10 568
4	Spanish (es) The Wire		8 812
5	French (fr) Sur écoute		8 172
6	German (de) The Wire		5 933
7	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		4 515
8	Chinese (zh) 火线重案组		2 202
9	Persian (fa) شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		2 095
10	Arabic (ar) ذا واير (مسلسل)		1 961

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		881
2	French (fr) Sur écoute		188
3	German (de) The Wire		163
4	Italian (it) The Wire (serie televisiva)		101
5	Spanish (es) The Wire		70
6	Norwegian (no) The Wire		61
7	Hebrew (he) הסמויה		59
8	Dutch (nl) The Wire		57
9	Russian (ru) Прослушка		57
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		3
2	Spanish (es) The Wire		2
3	Persian (fa) شنود (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		2
4	Croatian (hr) Žica (televizijska serija)		2
5	Bulgarian (bg) Наркомрежа		1
6	Catalan (ca) The Wire		1
7	German (de) The Wire		1
8	Finnish (fi) Langalla		1
9	Japanese (ja) THE WIRE/ザ・ワイヤー		1
10	Korean (ko) 더 와이어		1

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 July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information