The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend - 1971 film by Ken Russell. Article “The Boy Friend” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 23 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “The Boy Friend”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #53212 in May 2022
• Global: #53412 in July 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #173460 in May 2015
• Global: #226938 in September 2017

There are 8 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) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		65.1751
2	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		55.9643
3	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		23.0189
4	Catalan (ca) El xicot		20.1178
5	Russian (ru) Приятель		20.0245
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		11.2024
7	French (fr) The Boy Friend		11.1273
8	Italian (it) Il boy friend		11.0562

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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 Boy Friend" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		344 505
2	Russian (ru) Приятель		41 087
3	Italian (it) Il boy friend		24 540
4	French (fr) The Boy Friend		18 352
5	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		6 302
6	Catalan (ca) El xicot		3 106
7	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		1 197
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		342

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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 Boy Friend" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		2 165
2	Italian (it) Il boy friend		104
3	Russian (ru) Приятель		87
4	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		65
5	French (fr) The Boy Friend		62
6	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		36
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		14
8	Catalan (ca) El xicot		8

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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 Boy Friend" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		78
2	Russian (ru) Приятель		30
3	Italian (it) Il boy friend		28
4	French (fr) The Boy Friend		25
5	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		9
6	Catalan (ca) El xicot		4
7	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		4
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		2

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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 Boy Friend" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		1
2	Italian (it) Il boy friend		1
3	Catalan (ca) El xicot		0
4	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		0
5	French (fr) The Boy Friend		0
6	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		0
7	Russian (ru) Приятель		0
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		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 Boy Friend" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Boy Friend (1971 film)		136
2	French (fr) The Boy Friend		55
3	Russian (ru) Приятель		48
4	German (de) Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)		34
5	Italian (it) Il boy friend		31
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Boy Friend (film, 1971)		23
7	Catalan (ca) El xicot		16
8	Portuguese (pt) The Boy Friend		15

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan El xicot
de	German Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber)
en	English The Boy Friend (1971 film)
fr	French The Boy Friend
it	Italian Il boy friend
pt	Portuguese The Boy Friend
ru	Russian Приятель
sh	Serbo-Croatian The Boy Friend (film, 1971)

Best Rank

Portuguese: #173460 05.2015

Global: #226938 09.2017

Best Rank

Portuguese: #53212 05.2022

Global: #53412 07.2022

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