The Golden Ass

The Golden Ass - Ancient Roman novel by Apuleius. This book is the 1008^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Golden Ass” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “The Golden Ass”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Golden Ass is on the 1008^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1754 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4604 in December 2024
• Global: #20316 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #41749 in June 2025
• Global: #48491 in June 2009

There are 27 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) The Golden Ass		64.7638
2	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		51.9159
3	Bulgarian (bg) Златното магаре		51.6897
4	Polish (pl) Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)		50.0716
5	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		38.2643
6	Hungarian (hu) Az aranyszamár		32.8278
7	Greek (el) Οι Μεταμορφώσεις ή Ο Χρυσός γάιδαρος		29.6459
8	Finnish (fi) Kultainen aasi		29.1833
9	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		27.3657
10	Basque (eu) Urrezko astoa		27.2265

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Golden Ass" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		2 316 314
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		1 019 269
3	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		478 950
4	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		461 476
5	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		428 032
6	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		205 582
7	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		63 611
8	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		42 286
9	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		41 952
10	Ukrainian (uk) Метаморфози, або Золотий осел		38 478

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Golden Ass" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		11 357
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		4 099
3	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		2 150
4	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		1 931
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		1 403
6	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		568
7	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		328
8	Polish (pl) Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)		289
9	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		233
10	Simple English (simple) The Golden Ass		221

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

Language versions of the article "The Golden Ass" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		245
2	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		106
3	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		93
4	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		56
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		49
6	Ukrainian (uk) Метаморфози, або Золотий осел		27
7	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		26
8	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		20
9	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		15
10	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		14

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

Language versions of the article "The Golden Ass" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		3
2	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Metamorfozalar (Apuleyus)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Златното магаре		0
5	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		0
6	Greek (el) Οι Μεταμορφώσεις ή Ο Χρυσός γάιδαρος		0
7	English (en) The Golden Ass		0
8	Esperanto (eo) La ora azeno		0
9	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		0
10	Basque (eu) Urrezko astoa		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Golden Ass" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		385
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		178
3	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		156
4	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		146
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		118
6	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		97
7	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		85
8	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		81
9	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		75
10	Basque (eu) Urrezko astoa		70

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحمار الذهبي
az	Azerbaijani Metamorfozalar (Apuleyus)
bg	Bulgarian Златното магаре
ca	Catalan Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)
el	Greek Οι Μεταμορφώσεις ή Ο Χρυσός γάιδαρος
en	English The Golden Ass
eo	Esperanto La ora azeno
es	Spanish Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)
eu	Basque Urrezko astoa
fa	Persian الاغ طلایی
fi	Finnish Kultainen aasi
fr	French Métamorphoses (Apulée)
gl	Galician O asno de ouro
he	Hebrew חמור הזהב
hu	Hungarian Az aranyszamár
id	Indonesian Keledai Emas
it	Italian Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)
ko	Korean 황금 당나귀
la	Latin Metamorphoses (Apuleius)
no	Norwegian Det gyldne esel
pl	Polish Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)
pt	Portuguese Metamorfoses (Apuleio)
ru	Russian Метаморфозы (Апулей)
simple	Simple English The Golden Ass
tr	Turkish Altın eşek
uk	Ukrainian Метаморфози, або Золотий осел
zh	Chinese 金驴记

Best Rank

Simple English: #41749 06.2025

Global: #48491 06.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #4604 12.2024

Global: #20316 11.2014

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