Epic of Gilgamesh

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Epic of Gilgamesh - epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. This book is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 80^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "Epic of Gilgamesh" in English Wikipedia has 87.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 98 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7806^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7098^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 80^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5593^rd most popular in all topics.

The 4372^nd most popular in AI.

The 63^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9787^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6713^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Epic of Gilgamesh" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Epic of Gilgamesh", its content was written by 936 registered users of English Wikipedia (7098^th place) and edited by 3667 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4372^nd place).

Epic of Gilgamesh is on the 80^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 718 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5798 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #260 in September 2002
• Global: #85 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2836 in September 2014
• Global: #3049 in September 2021

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 August 1, 2024 (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	Persian (fa) حماسه گیلگمش		100
2	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		90.0465
3	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		87.7941
4	Vietnamese (vi) Sử thi Gilgamesh		82.3521
5	Ukrainian (uk) Епос про Гільгамеша		77.7123
6	Bulgarian (bg) Епос за Гилгамеш		77.1627
7	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		76.166
8	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		74.6532
9	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		71.1981
10	Finnish (fi) Gilgameš		63.7286

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		15 234 320
2	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		3 218 504
3	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		1 962 551
4	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		1 860 473
5	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		1 734 506
6	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		1 716 709
7	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		1 423 416
8	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		1 367 860
9	Portuguese (pt) Epopeia de Gilgamés		746 867
10	Italian (it) Epopea di Gilgameš		703 862

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) Epic of Gilgamesh		74 458
2	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		13 184
3	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		9 513
4	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		9 353
5	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		6 737
6	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		6 301
7	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		6 215
8	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		5 903
9	Persian (fa) حماسه گیلگمش		5 121
10	Italian (it) Epopea di Gilgameš		3 790

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		936
2	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		289
3	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		265
4	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		145
5	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		132
6	Hebrew (he) עלילות גילגמש		127
7	Dutch (nl) Gilgamesj-epos		116
8	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		104
9	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		88
10	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		88

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	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		4
2	Serbian (sr) Еп о Гилгамешу		4
3	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		2
4	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		2
5	Hebrew (he) עלילות גילגמש		2
6	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		1
7	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		1
8	Persian (fa) حماسه گیلگمش		1
9	Latin (la) Carmina de Gilgamo		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Epopeia de Gilgamés		1

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

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