Need for Speed: Most Wanted

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted - 2005 racing video game by Electronic Arts. This video game is the 281^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 297^th most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Need for Speed: Most Wanted” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 297^th most popular in video games in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9610^th most popular in AI.

The 281^st most popular in video games.

Since the creation of article “Need for Speed: Most Wanted”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2619 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9610^th place).

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is on the 297^th place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 281^st place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1189 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

Local (Simple English): #1804 in August 2008
Global: #1405 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

Local (Simple English): #6099 in November 2012
Global: #7589 in November 2012

There are 37 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#	Language	Quality score
1	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	87.4671
2	Malay (ms) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	86.0357
3	German (de) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	84.1424
4	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	57.1602
5	Finnish (fi) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	45.6979
6	Croatian (hr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videoigra 2005.)	41.0547
7	Chinese (zh) 極速快感：全民公敵	40.468
8	Spanish (es) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)	39.4144
9	Uzbek (uz) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	36.5197
10	Vietnamese (vi) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (trò chơi điện tử 2005)	36.2318

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

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" in all the time

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	5 006 698
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	3 978 773
3	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)	1 134 987
4	German (de) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	640 842
5	Spanish (es) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)	562 802
6	Italian (it) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	492 830
7	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド	434 274
8	French (fr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)	315 523
9	Indonesian (id) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (permainan video 2005)	200 503
10	Chinese (zh) 極速快感：全民公敵	153 640

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" in June 2026

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	25 181
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	8 120
3	Spanish (es) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)	1 743
4	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)	1 694
5	German (de) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	1 303
6	French (fr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)	934
7	Italian (it) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	784
8	Polish (pl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)	649
9	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド	639
10	Ukrainian (uk) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	609

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	Relative AI
1	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	642
2	German (de) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	434
3	Spanish (es) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)	213
4	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	208
5	French (fr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)	128
6	Italian (it) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	115
7	Polish (pl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)	109
8	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)	92
9	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)	83
10	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド	68

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

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	Relative AI
1	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	2
2	Spanish (es) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)	2
3	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	2
4	Dutch (nl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)	1
5	Polish (pl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)	1
6	Turkish (tr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video oyunu)	1
7	Arabic (ar) نيد فور سبيد: موست ونتد (لعبة فيديو 2005)	0
8	Catalan (ca) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	0
9	Czech (cs) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videohra, 2005)	0
10	Danish (da) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	0

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Need for Speed: Most Wanted" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	Relative CI
1	English (en) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)	143
2	Russian (ru) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	83
3	French (fr) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)	79
4	Portuguese (pt) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)	59
5	Italian (it) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	58
6	Ukrainian (uk) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	54
7	Chinese (zh) 極速快感：全民公敵	54
8	German (de) Need for Speed: Most Wanted	53
9	Japanese (ja) ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド	52
10	Polish (pl) Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)	50

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نيد فور سبيد: موست ونتد (لعبة فيديو 2005)
ca	Catalan Need for Speed: Most Wanted
cs	Czech Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videohra, 2005)
da	Danish Need for Speed: Most Wanted
de	German Need for Speed: Most Wanted
el	Greek Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
en	English Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)
es	Spanish Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)
et	Estonian Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005. aasta videomäng)
fa	Persian جنون سرعت: تحت تعقیب
fi	Finnish Need for Speed: Most Wanted
fr	French Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)
hi	Hindi नीड़ फॉर स्पीड: मोस्ट वांटेड
hr	Croatian Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videoigra 2005.)
hu	Hungarian Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videójáték, 2005)
hy	Armenian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
id	Indonesian Need for Speed: Most Wanted (permainan video 2005)
it	Italian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
ja	Japanese ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド
ko	Korean 니드 포 스피드: 모스트 원티드 (2005년 비디오 게임)
lt	Lithuanian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
ms	Malay Need for Speed: Most Wanted
nl	Dutch Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
no	Norwegian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
pl	Polish Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)
pt	Portuguese Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)
ro	Romanian Need for Speed: Most Wanted (joc video din 2005)
ru	Russian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
simple	Simple English Need for Speed: Most Wanted
sk	Slovak Need for Speed: Most Wanted
sv	Swedish Need for Speed: Most Wanted
th	Thai นีดฟอร์สปีด: โมสท์วอนเต็ด (วิดีโอเกม พ.ศ. 2548)
tr	Turkish Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video oyunu)
uk	Ukrainian Need for Speed: Most Wanted
uz	Uzbek Need for Speed: Most Wanted
vi	Vietnamese Need for Speed: Most Wanted (trò chơi điện tử 2005)
zh	Chinese 極速快感：全民公敵

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank	Simple English: #6099 11.2012	Global: #7589 11.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank	Simple English: #1804 08.2008	Global: #1405 06.2012

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)

ru: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

pt: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jogo eletrônico de 2005)

de: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

es: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videojuego de 2005)

it: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

ja: ニード・フォー・スピードモスト・ウォンテッド

fr: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (jeu vidéo, 2005)

id: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (permainan video 2005)

zh: 極速快感：全民公敵

uk: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

fi: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

hu: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videójáték, 2005)

fa: جنون سرعت: تحت تعقیب

pl: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (gra komputerowa 2005)

sv: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

ro: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (joc video din 2005)

vi: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (trò chơi điện tử 2005)

ms: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

tr: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video oyunu)

ar: نيد فور سبيد: موست ونتد (لعبة فيديو 2005)

nl: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)

da: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

lt: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

sk: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

no: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

ko: 니드 포 스피드: 모스트 원티드 (2005년 비디오 게임)

simple: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

ca: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

el: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)

th: นีดฟอร์สปีด: โมสท์วอนเต็ด (วิดีโอเกม พ.ศ. 2548)

hi: नीड़ फॉर स्पीड: मोस्ट वांटेड

hr: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videoigra 2005.)

uz: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

et: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005. aasta videomäng)

hy: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

cs: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (videohra, 2005)

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