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 74^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 77^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Epic of Gilgamesh” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7459^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9328^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 77^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5419^th most popular in all topics.

The 4388^th most popular in AI.

The 74^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4592^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Epic of Gilgamesh”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9328^th place) and edited by 3760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4388^th place).

Epic of Gilgamesh is on the 77^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 74^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6052 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #256 in September 2010
• Global: #85 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #389 in October 2021
• Global: #3078 in September 2021

There are 51 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	Persian (fa) حماسه گیلگمش		100
2	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		93.2289
3	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		88.0973
4	Vietnamese (vi) Sử thi Gilgamesh		81.9114
5	Bulgarian (bg) Епос за Гилгамеш		76.0268
6	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		75.4752
7	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		74.4715
8	Ukrainian (uk) Епос про Гільгамеша		74.34
9	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		70.8217
10	Finnish (fi) Gilgameš		63.6252

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		16 179 133
2	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		3 378 832
3	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		2 082 354
4	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		1 929 819
5	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		1 856 031
6	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		1 854 812
7	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		1 491 375
8	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		1 455 613
9	Portuguese (pt) Epopeia de Gilgamés		794 619
10	Italian (it) Epopea di Gilgameš		761 329

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		92 015
2	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		14 285
3	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		10 600
4	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		9 139
5	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		9 082
6	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		7 079
7	Italian (it) Epopea di Gilgameš		4 759
8	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		4 557
9	Portuguese (pt) Epopeia de Gilgamés		4 218
10	Dutch (nl) Gilgamesj-epos		3 218

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		964
2	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		296
3	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		285
4	Russian (ru) Эпос о Гильгамеше		149
5	Spanish (es) Poema de Gilgamesh		138
6	Hebrew (he) עלילות גילגמש		131
7	Dutch (nl) Gilgamesj-epos		118
8	Japanese (ja) ギルガメシュ叙事詩		106
9	Arabic (ar) ملحمة جلجامش		92
10	Turkish (tr) Gılgamış Destanı		90

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	French (fr) Épopée de Gilgamesh		2
2	Dutch (nl) Gilgamesj-epos		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Gilqameş dastanı		1
4	Catalan (ca) Epopeia de Guilgameix		1
5	Czech (cs) Epos o Gilgamešovi		1
6	German (de) Gilgamesch-Epos		1
7	English (en) Epic of Gilgamesh		1
8	Estonian (et) Gilgameši eepos		1
9	Hebrew (he) עלילות גילגמש		1
10	Croatian (hr) Ep o Gilgamešu		1

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

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