The Shield

Quality:

The Shield - American drama television series. This television series is the 529^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series and the 559^th most popular television series in English Wikipedia. Article “The Shield” in English Wikipedia has 70.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 559^th most popular in television series in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 529^th most popular in television series.

In June 2025 the article “The Shield” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Shield”, its content was written by 577 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1361 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Shield is on the 559^th place in local ranking of television series in English Wikipedia and on the 529^th place in global ranking of television series in all the time.

The article is cited 859 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3703 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #404 in November 2008
• Global: #1904 in March 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1003 in November 2008
• Global: #2609 in November 2008

There are 28 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) The Shield		70.7989
2	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		50.1791
3	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		39.6267
4	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		32.3018
5	Chinese (zh) 盾牌 (电视剧)		31.4231
6	Ukrainian (uk) Щит (телесеріал)		26.648
7	Norwegian (no) The Shield		25.477
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Shield		25.3272
9	Catalan (ca) Vic Mackey		25.0482
10	Serbian (sr) Прљава значка		21.1278

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Shield		11 063 288
2	Italian (it) The Shield		1 633 851
3	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		1 194 040
4	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		1 094 486
5	Spanish (es) The Shield		920 508
6	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		660 321
7	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		225 164
8	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド ルール無用の警察バッジ		150 375
9	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		98 478
10	Swedish (sv) The Shield		61 946

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 Shield		39 265
2	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		3 096
3	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		2 506
4	Italian (it) The Shield		2 047
5	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		1 537
6	Spanish (es) The Shield		1 515
7	Japanese (ja) ザ・シールド ルール無用の警察バッジ		700
8	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		570
9	Arabic (ar) الدرع (مسلسل)		360
10	Hebrew (he) המגן (סדרת טלוויזיה)		221

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Shield		577
2	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		137
3	Italian (it) The Shield		122
4	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		120
5	Spanish (es) The Shield		54
6	Hebrew (he) המגן (סדרת טלוויזיה)		43
7	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		34
8	Russian (ru) Щит (телесериал)		32
9	Norwegian (no) The Shield		31
10	Portuguese (pt) The Shield		30

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	Catalan (ca) Vic Mackey		2
2	English (en) The Shield		1
3	Basque (eu) The Shield		1
4	Korean (ko) 쉴드: XX 강력반		1
5	Arabic (ar) الدرع (مسلسل)		0
6	German (de) The Shield – Gesetz der Gewalt		0
7	Spanish (es) The Shield		0
8	Finnish (fi) Shield – lain varjolla		0
9	French (fr) The Shield (série télévisée)		0
10	Hebrew (he) המגן (סדרת טלוויזיה)		0

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

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