Brazen bull

Quality:

Bull of Phalaris - torture device and execution device. Article “Brazen bull” in English Wikipedia has 32 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Brazen bull” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Brazen bull”, its content was written by 290 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 838 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 305 times in English Wikipedia and cited 917 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5724 in July 2004
• Global: #7015 in April 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2285 in May 2013
• Global: #6899 in May 2013

There are 30 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	Chinese (zh) 铜牛		48.9127
2	English (en) Brazen bull		31.9859
3	Thai (th) โคสัมฤทธิ์		31.2644
4	Polish (pl) Byk z brązu		30.5533
5	Uzbek (uz) Bronza buqa		29.0259
6	Catalan (ca) Bou de Falaris		28.7569
7	Vietnamese (vi) Con bò đồng		27.7455
8	Persian (fa) گاو برنزی		27.2277
9	Finnish (fi) Pronssihärkä		25.2577
10	Italian (it) Toro di Falaride		24.4172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brazen bull		8 347 034
2	Japanese (ja) ファラリスの雄牛		2 486 739
3	Spanish (es) Toro de Fálaris		815 373
4	Russian (ru) Бык Фаларида		778 100
5	German (de) Sizilianischer Bulle		606 938
6	Italian (it) Toro di Falaride		526 010
7	French (fr) Taureau d'airain		423 060
8	Portuguese (pt) Touro de bronze		412 264
9	Polish (pl) Byk z brązu		138 644
10	Dutch (nl) Messingen stier		68 920

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) Brazen bull		25 688
2	Japanese (ja) ファラリスの雄牛		8 598
3	German (de) Sizilianischer Bulle		2 741
4	Russian (ru) Бык Фаларида		2 334
5	French (fr) Taureau d'airain		2 205
6	Spanish (es) Toro de Fálaris		1 781
7	Italian (it) Toro di Falaride		1 370
8	Portuguese (pt) Touro de bronze		973
9	Chinese (zh) 铜牛		614
10	Polish (pl) Byk z brązu		512

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brazen bull		290
2	Italian (it) Toro di Falaride		73
3	French (fr) Taureau d'airain		57
4	Russian (ru) Бык Фаларида		56
5	Spanish (es) Toro de Fálaris		36
6	Japanese (ja) ファラリスの雄牛		35
7	Dutch (nl) Messingen stier		33
8	Portuguese (pt) Touro de bronze		33
9	German (de) Sizilianischer Bulle		23
10	Polish (pl) Byk z brązu		21

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	Arabic (ar) ثور برونزي		1
2	Catalan (ca) Bou de Falaris		1
3	English (en) Brazen bull		1
4	French (fr) Taureau d'airain		1
5	Indonesian (id) Banteng perunggu		1
6	Japanese (ja) ファラリスの雄牛		1
7	Russian (ru) Бык Фаларида		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Falaris öküzü		0
9	Danish (da) Messingoksen		0
10	German (de) Sizilianischer Bulle		0

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

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