Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots - 1977 American TV miniseries. This television series is the 1460^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 742^nd most popular television series in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Roots (TV miniseries)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Roots (TV miniseries)”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 967 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Roots is on the 742^nd place in local ranking of television series in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1460^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2063 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4226 in June 2015
• Global: #15352 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10272 in June 2016
• Global: #4918 in June 2016

There are 27 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) Roots (1977 miniseries)		55.2118
2	Chinese (zh) 根 (1977年迷你剧集)		32.1841
3	Catalan (ca) Roots (minisèrie de 1977)		28.6803
4	Finnish (fi) Juuret (televisiosarja)		27.3599
5	Serbian (sr) Корени (мини-серија)		26.6011
6	Hebrew (he) שורשים (סדרת טלוויזיה)		21.0961
7	Japanese (ja) ルーツ (テレビドラマ)		20.7308
8	Norwegian (no) Røtter (TV-serie)		20.7019
9	Polish (pl) Korzenie (miniserial 1977)		19.7562
10	Portuguese (pt) Raízes (telessérie)		17.2722

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Roots (TV miniseries)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roots (1977 miniseries)		4 663 075
2	Japanese (ja) ルーツ (テレビドラマ)		891 799
3	German (de) Roots (Fernsehserie)		876 828
4	Spanish (es) Raíces (miniserie)		771 517
5	Italian (it) Radici (miniserie televisiva 1977)		205 802
6	French (fr) Racines (mini-série, 1977)		200 096
7	Portuguese (pt) Raízes (telessérie)		194 043
8	Dutch (nl) Roots (1977)		142 944
9	Swedish (sv) Rötter (TV-serie)		124 716
10	Hebrew (he) שורשים (סדרת טלוויזיה)		64 611

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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 "Roots (TV miniseries)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roots (1977 miniseries)		32 355
2	Japanese (ja) ルーツ (テレビドラマ)		2 356
3	German (de) Roots (Fernsehserie)		1 727
4	Italian (it) Radici (miniserie televisiva 1977)		1 616
5	Spanish (es) Raíces (miniserie)		1 329
6	French (fr) Racines (mini-série, 1977)		1 216
7	Portuguese (pt) Raízes (telessérie)		531
8	Russian (ru) Корни (мини-сериал, 1977)		470
9	Polish (pl) Korzenie (miniserial 1977)		441
10	Dutch (nl) Roots (1977)		306

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

Language versions of the article "Roots (TV miniseries)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roots (1977 miniseries)		406
2	French (fr) Racines (mini-série, 1977)		77
3	German (de) Roots (Fernsehserie)		72
4	Japanese (ja) ルーツ (テレビドラマ)		65
5	Italian (it) Radici (miniserie televisiva 1977)		58
6	Spanish (es) Raíces (miniserie)		40
7	Hebrew (he) שורשים (סדרת טלוויזיה)		37
8	Dutch (nl) Roots (1977)		33
9	Polish (pl) Korzenie (miniserial 1977)		31
10	Norwegian (no) Røtter (TV-serie)		22

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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 "Roots (TV miniseries)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Roots (minisèrie de 1977)		1
2	English (en) Roots (1977 miniseries)		1
3	Persian (fa) ریشه‌ها (مجموعه تلویزیونی ۱۹۷۷)		1
4	French (fr) Racines (mini-série, 1977)		1
5	Korean (ko) 뿌리 (1977년 드라마)		1
6	Czech (cs) Kořeny (seriál, 1977)		0
7	Danish (da) Rødder (tv-serie)		0
8	German (de) Roots (Fernsehserie)		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Roots (televida serio, 1977)		0
10	Spanish (es) Raíces (miniserie)		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 "Roots (TV miniseries)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Roots (1977 miniseries)		609
2	French (fr) Racines (mini-série, 1977)		205
3	Japanese (ja) ルーツ (テレビドラマ)		148
4	Russian (ru) Корни (мини-сериал, 1977)		125
5	German (de) Roots (Fernsehserie)		123
6	Portuguese (pt) Raízes (telessérie)		118
7	Italian (it) Radici (miniserie televisiva 1977)		87
8	Hebrew (he) שורשים (סדרת טלוויזיה)		83
9	Spanish (es) Raíces (miniserie)		80
10	Polish (pl) Korzenie (miniserial 1977)		76

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Roots (minisèrie de 1977)
cs	Czech Kořeny (seriál, 1977)
da	Danish Rødder (tv-serie)
de	German Roots (Fernsehserie)
en	English Roots (1977 miniseries)
eo	Esperanto Roots (televida serio, 1977)
es	Spanish Raíces (miniserie)
eu	Basque Roots (telesaila)
fa	Persian ریشه‌ها (مجموعه تلویزیونی ۱۹۷۷)
fi	Finnish Juuret (televisiosarja)
fr	French Racines (mini-série, 1977)
he	Hebrew שורשים (סדרת טלוויזיה)
it	Italian Radici (miniserie televisiva 1977)
ja	Japanese ルーツ (テレビドラマ)
ko	Korean 뿌리 (1977년 드라마)
nl	Dutch Roots (1977)
no	Norwegian Røtter (TV-serie)
pl	Polish Korzenie (miniserial 1977)
pt	Portuguese Raízes (telessérie)
ru	Russian Корни (мини-сериал, 1977)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Roots (miniserija, 1977)
simple	Simple English Roots (TV miniseries)
sr	Serbian Корени (мини-серија)
sv	Swedish Rötter (TV-serie)
tr	Turkish Roots (1977 mini dizisi)
ur	Urdu روٹس (ٹی وی سیریل 1977)
zh	Chinese 根 (1977年迷你剧集)

Best Rank

Simple English: #10272 06.2016

Global: #4918 06.2016

Best Rank

Simple English: #4226 06.2015

Global: #15352 06.2016

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