Gordian knot

Quality:

Gordian knot - knot in Greek mythology, used as a metaphor for difficult problems with little or no solution. Article “Gordian knot” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Gordian knot”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1247 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 976 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1194 in May 2012
• Global: #2703 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #563 in July 2013
• Global: #8403 in April 2024

There are 43 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	English (en) Gordian Knot		38.1789
2	Simple English (simple) Gordian knot		37.3786
3	Latin (la) Nodus Gordianus		33.8997
4	Vietnamese (vi) Nút thắt Gordian		31.77
5	Greek (el) Γόρδιος δεσμός		27.7493
6	Norwegian (no) Den gordiske knute		27.1686
7	Hungarian (hu) Gordiuszi csomó		27.0831
8	Basque (eu) Gordiar korapiloa		24.6085
9	Russian (ru) Гордиев узел		24.5533
10	German (de) Gordischer Knoten		24.122

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gordian Knot		7 479 990
2	Spanish (es) Nudo gordiano		1 543 350
3	German (de) Gordischer Knoten		1 503 421
4	Russian (ru) Гордиев узел		1 079 543
5	French (fr) Nœud gordien		1 000 275
6	Italian (it) Nodo gordiano		780 384
7	Polish (pl) Węzeł gordyjski		624 436
8	Japanese (ja) ゴルディアスの結び目		558 671
9	Portuguese (pt) Nó górdio		362 488
10	Greek (el) Γόρδιος δεσμός		318 779

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) Gordian Knot		28 602
2	Russian (ru) Гордиев узел		6 793
3	French (fr) Nœud gordien		5 340
4	German (de) Gordischer Knoten		4 545
5	Spanish (es) Nudo gordiano		4 226
6	Japanese (ja) ゴルディアスの結び目		4 193
7	Italian (it) Nodo gordiano		2 578
8	Greek (el) Γόρδιος δεσμός		1 391
9	Polish (pl) Węzeł gordyjski		1 053
10	Swedish (sv) Gordiska knuten		1 030

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gordian Knot		277
2	French (fr) Nœud gordien		122
3	German (de) Gordischer Knoten		114
4	Spanish (es) Nudo gordiano		63
5	Dutch (nl) Gordiaanse knoop		56
6	Russian (ru) Гордиев узел		52
7	Italian (it) Nodo gordiano		44
8	Hebrew (he) קשר גורדי		36
9	Norwegian (no) Den gordiske knute		35
10	Polish (pl) Węzeł gordyjski		35

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) عقدة غوردية		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Qordi düyünü		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Гордиев възел		0
4	Catalan (ca) Nus gordià		0
5	Czech (cs) Gordický uzel		0
6	Danish (da) Gordisk knude		0
7	German (de) Gordischer Knoten		0
8	Greek (el) Γόρδιος δεσμός		0
9	English (en) Gordian Knot		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Gordia nodo		0

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

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