Asinus Buridani

Quality:

Buridan's ass - philosophical paradox regarding free will. Article “Asinus Buridani” in Latin Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.6 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Asinus Buridani”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Latin Wikipedia and edited by 772 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #2126 in October 2025
• Global: #7858 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #1417 in August 2025
• Global: #23491 in November 2016

There are 34 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) Buridan's ass		39.9234
2	Persian (fa) خر بوریدان		39.5981
3	Ukrainian (uk) Буриданів віслюк		37.8551
4	German (de) Buridans Esel		37.0003
5	Latin (la) Asinus Buridani		30.4657
6	Italian (it) Asino di Buridano		25.4221
7	Hebrew (he) חמורו של בורידן		25.1711
8	Vietnamese (vi) Con lừa của Buridan		24.8138
9	Azerbaijani (az) Buridan eşşəyi		23.4332
10	Serbian (sr) Буриданов магарац		23.2397

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buridan's ass		1 986 804
2	Russian (ru) Буриданов осёл		915 835
3	Italian (it) Asino di Buridano		599 762
4	German (de) Buridans Esel		416 599
5	French (fr) Paradoxe de l'âne de Buridan		413 865
6	Spanish (es) Asno de Buridán		376 368
7	Japanese (ja) ビュリダンのロバ		150 543
8	Portuguese (pt) Asno de Buridan		89 331
9	Czech (cs) Buridanův osel		63 683
10	Serbian (sr) Буриданов магарац		61 749

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) Buridan's ass		6 529
2	Bulgarian (bg) Буриданово магаре		3 218
3	French (fr) Paradoxe de l'âne de Buridan		2 420
4	Italian (it) Asino di Buridano		1 864
5	German (de) Buridans Esel		1 430
6	Russian (ru) Буриданов осёл		1 234
7	Japanese (ja) ビュリダンのロバ		832
8	Spanish (es) Asno de Buridán		581
9	Chinese (zh) 布里丹之驴		441
10	Polish (pl) Osioł Buridana		306

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Buridan's ass		169
2	German (de) Buridans Esel		81
3	Russian (ru) Буриданов осёл		58
4	Italian (it) Asino di Buridano		55
5	French (fr) Paradoxe de l'âne de Buridan		49
6	Hebrew (he) חמורו של בורידן		48
7	Dutch (nl) Ezel van Buridan		37
8	Danish (da) Buridans æsel		31
9	Spanish (es) Asno de Buridán		28
10	Japanese (ja) ビュリダンのロバ		17

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) Buridans Esel		2
2	Arabic (ar) حمار بوريدان		1
3	Catalan (ca) Ase de Buridan		1
4	Hebrew (he) חמורו של בורידן		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Buridan eşşəyi		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Буриданово магаре		0
7	Czech (cs) Buridanův osel		0
8	Danish (da) Buridans æsel		0
9	Greek (el) Ο όνος του Μπουριντάν		0
10	English (en) Buridan's ass		0

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

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