1979 in rail transport

1979 in rail transport - rail transport-related events during the year of 1979. Article “1979 in rail transport” in English Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.34 points.

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

Since the creation of article “1979 in rail transport”, its content was written by 27 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 72 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1053 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #79089 in December 2004
• Global: #151699 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1126378 in June 2008
• Global: #1201618 in August 2023

There are 5 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	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		32.2597
2	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		25.4805
3	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		20.6838
4	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		12.6498
5	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		2.4566

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

The most popular language versions of the article "1979 in rail transport" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		18 630
2	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		11 678
3	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		10 031
4	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		8 889
5	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		2 154

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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 "1979 in rail transport" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		35
2	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		35
3	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		30
4	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		23
5	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		21

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

Language versions of the article "1979 in rail transport" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		27
2	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		15
3	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		15
4	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		9
5	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		6

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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 "1979 in rail transport" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		0
2	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		0
3	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		0
4	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		0
5	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		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 "1979 in rail transport" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) 1979 dans les chemins de fer		538
2	Russian (ru) 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		262
3	Chinese (zh) 1979年鐵路		170
4	Japanese (ja) 1979年の鉄道		78
5	English (en) 1979 in rail transport		5

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#	Language	Value
en	English 1979 in rail transport
fr	French 1979 dans les chemins de fer
ja	Japanese 1979年の鉄道
ru	Russian 1979 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта
zh	Chinese 1979年鐵路

Best Rank

English: #1126378 06.2008

Global: #1201618 08.2023

Best Rank

English: #79089 12.2004

Global: #151699 12.2004

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