Friends

Quality:

Friends - American sitcom (1994–2004). This television series is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 30^th most popular television series in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Friends” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 6215^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1290^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 30^th most popular in television series in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 312^th most popular in all topics.

The 474^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 8997^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2457^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4928^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Friends”, its content was written by 71 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1290^th place) and edited by 8180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (474^th place).

Friends is on the 30^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 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12002 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): #1453 in May 2008
• Global: #45 in May 2021

There are 51 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	Portuguese (pt) Friends		100
2	Slovak (sk) Priatelia (seriál)		100
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Những người bạn		99.6871
5	Turkish (tr) Friends		99.6394
6	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		97.868
7	Finnish (fi) Frendit		94.8331
8	Serbian (sr) Пријатељи (ТВ серија)		94.7368
9	English (en) Friends		93.7761
10	Tamil (ta) பிரண்ட்ஸ் (தொலைக்காட்சித் தொடர்)		92

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Friends		76 460 675
2	Spanish (es) Friends		11 923 170
3	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		9 498 451
4	French (fr) Friends		8 465 858
5	German (de) Friends		8 125 486
6	Italian (it) Friends		7 328 541
7	Portuguese (pt) Friends		5 964 222
8	Polish (pl) Przyjaciele		3 095 149
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2 797 344
10	Chinese (zh) 老友记		2 456 092

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		137 742
2	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		21 890
3	French (fr) Friends		13 522
4	Italian (it) Friends		12 285
5	German (de) Friends		12 210
6	Spanish (es) Friends		12 161
7	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		7 401
8	Chinese (zh) 老友记		7 318
9	Persian (fa) فرندز		4 917
10	Portuguese (pt) Friends		4 372

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Friends		2 971
2	French (fr) Friends		556
3	Spanish (es) Friends		459
4	German (de) Friends		415
5	Hebrew (he) חברים		357
6	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		295
7	Italian (it) Friends		275
8	Portuguese (pt) Friends		228
9	Dutch (nl) Friends (sitcom)		214
10	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok		188

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	English (en) Friends		3
2	Hebrew (he) חברים		3
3	Croatian (hr) Prijatelji		3
4	Italian (it) Friends		3
5	Arabic (ar) أصدقاء (مسلسل أمريكي)		2
6	Czech (cs) Přátelé		2
7	Persian (fa) فرندز		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Jóbarátok		2
9	Japanese (ja) フレンズ (1994年のテレビドラマ)		2
10	Russian (ru) Друзья (телесериал)		2

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

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