The Following

Quality:

The Following - 2013 American crime thriller television series. This television series is the 401^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 511^th most popular television series in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “The Following” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.22 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

The 511^th most popular in television series in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 401^st most popular in television series.

Since the creation of article “The Following”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 732 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Following is on the 511^th place in local ranking of television series in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 401^st place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 46 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 1551 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #1009 in February 2013
• Global: #442 in April 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #242 in March 2013
• Global: #150 in April 2013

There are 25 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	Italian (it) The Following		62.2282
2	German (de) The Following		54.9966
3	English (en) The Following		52.8316
4	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		45.4083
5	Ukrainian (uk) Послідовники		43.5727
6	Catalan (ca) The Following		38.1824
7	Polish (pl) The Following		28.7718
8	Hungarian (hu) Gyilkos hajsza		26.8827
9	Chinese (zh) 杀手之王		23.698
10	Portuguese (pt) The Following		23.1554

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Following		12 889 360
2	Italian (it) The Following		2 432 930
3	Spanish (es) The Following		1 652 753
4	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		1 073 008
5	German (de) The Following		937 128
6	Russian (ru) Последователи		793 252
7	Portuguese (pt) The Following		740 255
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・フォロイング		377 860
9	Dutch (nl) The Following		254 386
10	Polish (pl) The Following		114 663

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 Following		19 008
2	Russian (ru) Последователи		2 045
3	Italian (it) The Following		1 185
4	German (de) The Following		1 085
5	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		950
6	Spanish (es) The Following		906
7	Chinese (zh) 杀手之王		523
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・フォロイング		513
9	Portuguese (pt) The Following		444
10	Dutch (nl) The Following		373

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Following		241
2	Italian (it) The Following		74
3	French (fr) Following (série télévisée)		62
4	German (de) The Following		59
5	Spanish (es) The Following		38
6	Hebrew (he) המעקב		30
7	Portuguese (pt) The Following		26
8	Polish (pl) The Following		22
9	Dutch (nl) The Following		21
10	Russian (ru) Последователи		21

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	Catalan (ca) The Following		1
2	German (de) The Following		1
3	Spanish (es) The Following		1
4	Persian (fa) پیروی (مجموعه تلویزیونی)		1
5	Japanese (ja) ザ・フォロイング		1
6	Korean (ko) 팔로잉		1
7	Chinese (zh) 杀手之王		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Последователите		0
9	Czech (cs) Stoupenci zla		0
10	English (en) The Following		0

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In Portuguese Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Michael B. Jordan, Oscar 2026, One Battle After Another, Pecadores (filme), Sean Penn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jessie Buckley, Robert Redford, Roger Ibañez, O Agente Secreto.

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