The Wave (1981)

The Wave - 1981 short television film directed by Alex Grasshoff. This television series is the 6535^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 610^th most popular television series in Dutch Wikipedia and the 626^th most popular film in Dutch Wikipedia. Article “The Wave (1981)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 6.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Wave (1981)”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Wave is on the 610^th place in local ranking of television series in Dutch Wikipedia and on the 6535^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The Wave is on the 626^th place in local ranking of films on Dutch Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 149 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #6534 in August 2008
• Global: #34943 in May 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #3014 in February 2019
• Global: #21099 in March 2008

There are 7 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	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		20.6031
2	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		14.3278
3	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		11.7046
4	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		11.2337
5	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		10.8818
6	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		6.6992
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		2.0937

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Wave (1981)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		845 929
2	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		583 703
3	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		303 626
4	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		190 493
5	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		120 935
6	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		74 141
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		944

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Wave (1981)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		4 225
2	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		1 606
3	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		679
4	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		557
5	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		309
6	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		204
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		27

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

Language versions of the article "The Wave (1981)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		82
2	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		72
3	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		70
4	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		33
5	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		26
6	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		11
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		1

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

Language versions of the article "The Wave (1981)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		0
2	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		0
3	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		0
4	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		0
5	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		0
6	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		0
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Wave (1981)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Wave (1981 film)		97
2	German (de) Die Welle (1981)		17
3	Hebrew (he) הנחשול		13
4	French (fr) La Vague (téléfilm)		12
5	Dutch (nl) The Wave (1981)		4
6	Norwegian (no) Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment		4
7	Simple English (simple) The Wave (1981 movie)		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Die Welle (1981)
en	English The Wave (1981 film)
fr	French La Vague (téléfilm)
he	Hebrew הנחשול
nl	Dutch The Wave (1981)
no	Norwegian Bølgen – et skremmende eksperiment
simple	Simple English The Wave (1981 movie)

Best Rank

Dutch: #3014 02.2019

Global: #21099 03.2008

Best Rank

Dutch: #6534 08.2008

Global: #34943 05.2015

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