Canis aureus

Quality:

Golden jackal - species of mammal. This taxon is the 782^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 604^th most popular taxon in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Canis aureus” in Italian Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 163 references and 25 sections.

This article has the best quality in Czech Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is German.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 604^th most popular in taxon in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 782^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4675^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2129^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Canis aureus” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 44 authors in all languages (2129^th place).

Since the creation of article “Canis aureus”, its content was written by 118 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1999 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Golden jackal is on the 604^th place in local ranking of taxon in Italian Wikipedia and on the 782^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 155 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 6098 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1081 in December 2015
• Global: #1367 in August 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #4313 in December 2021
• Global: #4675 in June 2025

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, 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	Czech (cs) Šakal obecný		99.2493
2	English (en) Golden jackal		97.3071
3	Italian (it) Canis aureus		97.0524
4	Estonian (et) Šaakal		86.1995
5	French (fr) Chacal doré		71.9722
6	German (de) Goldschakal		71.0322
7	Slovak (sk) Šakal zlatý		69.2091
8	Chinese (zh) 亞洲胡狼		63.7854
9	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный шакал		63.1228
10	Norwegian (no) Gullsjakal		56.5176

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Golden jackal		4 140 696
2	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный шакал		1 552 445
3	German (de) Goldschakal		1 520 006
4	Italian (it) Canis aureus		564 271
5	Hungarian (hu) Aranysakál		494 544
6	French (fr) Chacal doré		470 266
7	Polish (pl) Szakal złocisty		458 446
8	Dutch (nl) Goudjakhals		302 791
9	Spanish (es) Canis aureus		281 043
10	Finnish (fi) Kultasakaali		279 809

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Goldschakal		101 201
2	English (en) Golden jackal		27 372
3	French (fr) Chacal doré		10 326
4	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный шакал		9 273
5	Polish (pl) Szakal złocisty		9 015
6	Italian (it) Canis aureus		4 047
7	Hungarian (hu) Aranysakál		3 114
8	Danish (da) Guldsjakal		1 827
9	Dutch (nl) Goudjakhals		1 779
10	Spanish (es) Canis aureus		1 402

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Golden jackal		347
2	German (de) Goldschakal		189
3	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный шакал		139
4	French (fr) Chacal doré		130
5	Italian (it) Canis aureus		118
6	Dutch (nl) Goudjakhals		106
7	Hebrew (he) תן זהוב		89
8	Hungarian (hu) Aranysakál		82
9	Finnish (fi) Kultasakaali		61
10	Norwegian (no) Gullsjakal		55

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	German (de) Goldschakal		23
2	English (en) Golden jackal		8
3	French (fr) Chacal doré		7
4	Catalan (ca) Xacal comú		2
5	Spanish (es) Canis aureus		1
6	Hebrew (he) תן זהוב		1
7	Italian (it) Canis aureus		1
8	Korean (ko) 황금자칼		1
9	Arabic (ar) ابن آوى الذهبي		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Adi çaqqal		0

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

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