The X-Files

Quality:

The X-Files - 1993–2002 American science fiction-drama television series. This television series is the 69^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 155^th most popular television series in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The X-Files” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5828^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 155^th most popular in television series in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1779^th most popular in all topics.

The 2470^th most popular in AI.

The 69^th most popular in television series.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5600^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3423^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8442^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The X-Files”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5828^th place) and edited by 4771 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2470^th place).

The X-Files is on the 155^th place in local ranking of television series in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 69^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 61 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15848 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #196 in February 2015
• Global: #63 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2958 in July 2008
• Global: #44 in January 2016

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	English (en) The X-Files		100
2	Croatian (hr) Dosjei X		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The X-Files		93.0037
4	Spanish (es) The X-Files		91.463
5	Italian (it) X-Files		88.325
6	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		72.7891
7	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		68.2452
8	Hungarian (hu) X-akták		66.4493
9	Malay (ms) The X-Files		63.8989
10	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		58.5825

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The X-Files		34 229 367
2	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		7 513 694
3	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		5 522 416
4	Spanish (es) The X-Files		4 707 404
5	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		4 505 833
6	Italian (it) X-Files		4 444 434
7	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		4 232 110
8	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		1 609 920
9	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		1 267 993
10	Chinese (zh) X档案		1 040 350

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 X-Files		103 770
2	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		19 225
3	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		17 020
4	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		12 090
5	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		9 428
6	Italian (it) X-Files		8 347
7	Spanish (es) The X-Files		7 785
8	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		5 033
9	Chinese (zh) X档案		3 574
10	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		2 225

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The X-Files		1 388
2	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		421
3	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		398
4	Italian (it) X-Files		251
5	Russian (ru) Секретные материалы		244
6	Spanish (es) The X-Files		233
7	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		189
8	Portuguese (pt) The X-Files		147
9	Polish (pl) Z Archiwum X		131
10	Hebrew (he) תיקים באפלה		117

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) The X-Files		7
2	Urdu (ur) دی ایکس فائلز		3
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The X-Files		2
4	Arabic (ar) الملفات الغامضة		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Məxfi materiallar (teleserial)		1
6	German (de) Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI		1
7	French (fr) X-Files : Aux frontières du réel		1
8	Croatian (hr) Dosjei X		1
9	Italian (it) X-Files		1
10	Japanese (ja) X-ファイル		1

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

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