Friends

Quality:

This television series is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 29^th most popular television series in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Friends” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5608^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1357^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 29^th most popular in television series in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 329^th most popular in all topics.

The 481^st most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3554^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2042^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5637^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Friends”, its content was written by 72 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1357^th place) and edited by 8246 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (481^st place).

Friends is on the 29^th place in local ranking of television series in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 126 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12087 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in January 2005
• Global: #68 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1147 in December 2025
• Global: #45 in May 2021

There are 52 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, 2026 (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	Portuguese (pt) Friends		100
2	Turkish (tr) Friends		100
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Những người bạn		99.5144
5	Slovak (sk) Priatelia (seriál)		98.5714
6	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		97.9965
7	Serbian (sr) Пријатељи (ТВ серија)		94.7368
8	Finnish (fi) Frendit		94.6439
9	English (en) Friends		93.9449
10	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		91.6231

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friends		78 342 702
2	Spanish (es) Friends		12 125 693
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		10 560 163
4	French (fr) Friends		8 706 456
5	German (de) Friends		8 336 397
6	Italian (it) Friends		7 672 815
7	Portuguese (pt) Friends		6 029 056
8	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 160 906
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2 912 417
10	Chinese (zh) 老友记		2 545 656

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) Friends		135 759
2	Italian (it) Friends		28 127
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		17 806
4	French (fr) Friends		14 011
5	Spanish (es) Friends		12 454
6	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		10 156
7	German (de) Friends		8 380
8	Chinese (zh) 老友记		6 463
9	Persian (fa) فرندز		5 786
10	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 587

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friends		2 997
2	French (fr) Friends		569
3	Spanish (es) Friends		465
4	German (de) Friends		421
5	Hebrew (he) חברים		364
6	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		300
7	Italian (it) Friends		281
8	Portuguese (pt) Friends		229
9	Dutch (nl) Friends (sitcom)		218
10	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok (televíziós sorozat)		191

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	Urdu (ur) فرینڈز		5
2	German (de) Friends		3
3	English (en) Friends		3
4	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		2
5	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		2
6	Portuguese (pt) Friends		2
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dostlar (teleserial)		1
8	Catalan (ca) Friends		1
9	Greek (el) Τα Φιλαράκια		1
10	Finnish (fi) Frendit		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information