Smokey and the Bandit

Quality:

Smokey and the Bandit - 1977 film by Hal Needham. This film is the 2087^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 424^th most popular film in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Smokey and the Bandit” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

The 424^th most popular in films in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2087^th most popular in films.

Since the creation of article “Smokey and the Bandit”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 951 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Smokey and the Bandit is on the 424^th place in local ranking of films in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 2087^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 936 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1585 in June 2023
• Global: #5158 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #3192 in September 2018
• Global: #1330 in September 2018

There are 23 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) Smokey and the Bandit		60.8402
2	Romanian (ro) Smokey și Banditul		30.5404
3	German (de) Ein ausgekochtes Schlitzohr		28.5545
4	Norwegian (no) Smokey and the Bandit		25.0061
5	Chinese (zh) 追追追		21.8714
6	Russian (ru) Полицейский и бандит		20.8941
7	Swedish (sv) Nu blåser vi snuten		18.336
8	Korean (ko) 스모키 밴디트		18.2706
9	Persian (fa) اسموکی و بندیت		17.4124
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Smokey and the Bandit		16.1767

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smokey and the Bandit		8 594 635
2	German (de) Ein ausgekochtes Schlitzohr		987 449
3	Japanese (ja) トランザム7000		357 906
4	Russian (ru) Полицейский и бандит		211 332
5	French (fr) Cours après moi shérif		205 089
6	Polish (pl) Mistrz kierownicy ucieka		192 821
7	Spanish (es) Smokey and the Bandit		161 702
8	Swedish (sv) Nu blåser vi snuten		144 621
9	Portuguese (pt) Smokey and the Bandit		78 814
10	Italian (it) Il bandito e la "Madama"		67 125

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) Smokey and the Bandit		37 413
2	German (de) Ein ausgekochtes Schlitzohr		2 817
3	Japanese (ja) トランザム7000		995
4	Russian (ru) Полицейский и бандит		785
5	French (fr) Cours après moi shérif		623
6	Spanish (es) Smokey and the Bandit		611
7	Polish (pl) Mistrz kierownicy ucieka		394
8	Swedish (sv) Nu blåser vi snuten		293
9	Portuguese (pt) Smokey and the Bandit		144
10	Chinese (zh) 追追追		109

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smokey and the Bandit		522
2	German (de) Ein ausgekochtes Schlitzohr		77
3	French (fr) Cours après moi shérif		65
4	Russian (ru) Полицейский и бандит		43
5	Japanese (ja) トランザム7000		38
6	Italian (it) Il bandito e la "Madama"		34
7	Swedish (sv) Nu blåser vi snuten		34
8	Norwegian (no) Smokey and the Bandit		19
9	Spanish (es) Smokey and the Bandit		15
10	Finnish (fi) Konna ja Koukku		14

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	Korean (ko) 스모키 밴디트		2
2	German (de) Ein ausgekochtes Schlitzohr		1
3	English (en) Smokey and the Bandit		1
4	Italian (it) Il bandito e la "Madama"		1
5	Polish (pl) Mistrz kierownicy ucieka		1
6	Swedish (sv) Nu blåser vi snuten		1
7	Danish (da) Det vilde ræs (film fra 1977)		0
8	Spanish (es) Smokey and the Bandit		0
9	Basque (eu) Smokey and the Bandit		0
10	Persian (fa) اسموکی و بندیت		0

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

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