Dust bathing

Dust bathing - animal maintenance behavior of rolling in dust. Article “Dust bathing” in English Wikipedia has 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 8 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Dust bathing” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dust bathing”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 46 times in English Wikipedia and cited 138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49773 in March 2013
• Global: #98079 in March 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #139825 in May 2011
• Global: #216277 in May 2011

There are 11 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) Dust bathing		55.1985
2	Chinese (zh) 沙浴		37.0429
3	German (de) Sandbad		36.5996
4	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		36.0908
5	Czech (cs) Prachová koupel		34.874
6	Polish (pl) Kąpiel piaskowa		32.0429
7	French (fr) Bain de poussière		22.3687
8	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		21.5822
9	Arabic (ar) استحمام بالتراب		18.4602
10	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		14.5378

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Dust bathing" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust bathing		493 370
2	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		100 161
3	German (de) Sandbad		96 910
4	French (fr) Bain de poussière		51 583
5	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		31 942
6	Arabic (ar) استحمام بالتراب		8 118
7	Chinese (zh) 沙浴		3 852
8	Polish (pl) Kąpiel piaskowa		2 013
9	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		1 451
10	Esperanto (eo) Polvobano		668

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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 "Dust bathing" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust bathing		2 874
2	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		501
3	German (de) Sandbad		290
4	French (fr) Bain de poussière		176
5	Chinese (zh) 沙浴		138
6	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		78
7	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		55
8	Polish (pl) Kąpiel piaskowa		54
9	Czech (cs) Prachová koupel		29
10	Arabic (ar) استحمام بالتراب		17

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dust bathing		55
2	German (de) Sandbad		30
3	French (fr) Bain de poussière		16
4	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		8
5	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		7
6	Czech (cs) Prachová koupel		4
7	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		4
8	Polish (pl) Kąpiel piaskowa		3
9	Chinese (zh) 沙浴		3
10	Esperanto (eo) Polvobano		2

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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 "Dust bathing" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dust bathing		1
2	Arabic (ar) استحمام بالتراب		0
3	Czech (cs) Prachová koupel		0
4	German (de) Sandbad		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Polvobano		0
6	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		0
7	French (fr) Bain de poussière		0
8	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		0
9	Polish (pl) Kąpiel piaskowa		0
10	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		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 "Dust bathing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dust bathing		46
2	German (de) Sandbad		27
3	French (fr) Bain de poussière		21
4	Japanese (ja) 砂浴び		14
5	Czech (cs) Prachová koupel		10
6	Persian (fa) خاک‌بازی		6
7	Arabic (ar) استحمام بالتراب		4
8	Swedish (sv) Sandbadning		4
9	Chinese (zh) 沙浴		3
10	Esperanto (eo) Polvobano		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استحمام بالتراب
cs	Czech Prachová koupel
de	German Sandbad
en	English Dust bathing
eo	Esperanto Polvobano
fa	Persian خاک‌بازی
fr	French Bain de poussière
ja	Japanese 砂浴び
pl	Polish Kąpiel piaskowa
sv	Swedish Sandbadning
zh	Chinese 沙浴

Best Rank

English: #139825 05.2011

Global: #216277 05.2011

Best Rank

English: #49773 03.2013

Global: #98079 03.2009

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