Syrian hamster

Quality:

Mesocricetus auratus - species of hamster. This taxon is the 1142^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 477^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Syrian hamster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7606^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 477^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1142^nd most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Syrian hamster”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7606^th place) and edited by 1849 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Mesocricetus auratus is on the 477^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1142^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 800 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #89 in January 2015
• Global: #1591 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2229 in March 2014
• Global: #13005 in June 2008

There are 39 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) Golden hamster		82.8302
2	Malay (ms) Hamster Emas		80.9137
3	Galician (gl) Hámster dourado		47.1222
4	French (fr) Hamster doré		46.351
5	Serbian (sr) Сиријски хрчак		45.2162
6	German (de) Goldhamster		43.8955
7	Polish (pl) Chomiczek syryjski		41.6419
8	Italian (it) Mesocricetus auratus		36.8776
9	Swedish (sv) Guldhamster		36.7789
10	Slovak (sk) Škrečok zlatý		34.2643

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Golden hamster		2 972 977
2	German (de) Goldhamster		1 051 181
3	Polish (pl) Chomiczek syryjski		884 639
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンハムスター		771 800
5	Russian (ru) Сирийский хомячок		715 843
6	French (fr) Hamster doré		392 714
7	Chinese (zh) 敘利亞倉鼠		379 711
8	Portuguese (pt) Hamster-sírio		330 984
9	Spanish (es) Mesocricetus auratus		285 125
10	Czech (cs) Křeček zlatý		266 945

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) Golden hamster		9 847
2	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンハムスター		2 640
3	Chinese (zh) 敘利亞倉鼠		2 469
4	Russian (ru) Сирийский хомячок		2 352
5	German (de) Goldhamster		1 807
6	Polish (pl) Chomiczek syryjski		1 089
7	Spanish (es) Mesocricetus auratus		1 054
8	French (fr) Hamster doré		736
9	Portuguese (pt) Hamster-sírio		647
10	Czech (cs) Křeček zlatý		623

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Golden hamster		457
2	German (de) Goldhamster		161
3	Polish (pl) Chomiczek syryjski		130
4	French (fr) Hamster doré		116
5	Italian (it) Mesocricetus auratus		89
6	Finnish (fi) Kultahamsteri		87
7	Dutch (nl) Goudhamster		83
8	Hebrew (he) אוגר זהוב		76
9	Russian (ru) Сирийский хомячок		65
10	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンハムスター		53

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	English (en) Golden hamster		7
2	Czech (cs) Křeček zlatý		1
3	Galician (gl) Hámster dourado		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Hamster-sírio		1
5	Arabic (ar) قداد ذهبي		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Златист хамстер		0
7	Catalan (ca) Hàmster daurat		0
8	German (de) Goldhamster		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Ora hamstro		0
10	Spanish (es) Mesocricetus auratus		0

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

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