Overburden

Overburden - earth and rock covering a mineral deposit. Article “Overburden” in English Wikipedia has 20.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 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.

Since the creation of article “Overburden”, its content was written by 36 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 218 times in English Wikipedia and cited 702 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #51814 in May 2005
• Global: #53392 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #148559 in November 2019
• Global: #229195 in November 2019

There are 14 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) Overburden		20.4472
2	Polish (pl) Nadkład		20.4294
3	Italian (it) Overburden		20.4229
4	Arabic (ar) غطاء فوقي		20.1531
5	Spanish (es) Sobrecarga (minería)		17.1313
6	French (fr) Mort-terrain		13.4028
7	Portuguese (pt) Pilha de estéril		13.0422
8	Chinese (zh) 覆盖层		10.3727
9	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		10.0743
10	Russian (ru) Вскрыша		7.5227

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Overburden		626 240
2	Russian (ru) Вскрыша		100 414
3	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		99 313
4	Polish (pl) Nadkład		40 815
5	Czech (cs) Skrývka		28 405
6	French (fr) Mort-terrain		25 473
7	Italian (it) Overburden		7 937
8	Estonian (et) Katend		6 472
9	Ukrainian (uk) Розкрив		4 546
10	Spanish (es) Sobrecarga (minería)		3 801

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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 "Overburden" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Overburden		1 699
2	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		241
3	Russian (ru) Вскрыша		185
4	French (fr) Mort-terrain		85
5	Czech (cs) Skrývka		58
6	Polish (pl) Nadkład		50
7	Chinese (zh) 覆盖层		36
8	Portuguese (pt) Pilha de estéril		31
9	Spanish (es) Sobrecarga (minería)		22
10	Simple English (simple) Overburden		19

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		52
2	English (en) Overburden		36
3	Italian (it) Overburden		17
4	French (fr) Mort-terrain		11
5	Polish (pl) Nadkład		10
6	Estonian (et) Katend		7
7	Russian (ru) Вскрыша		7
8	Czech (cs) Skrývka		5
9	Simple English (simple) Overburden		5
10	Ukrainian (uk) Розкрив		5

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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 "Overburden" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 覆盖层		1
2	Arabic (ar) غطاء فوقي		0
3	Czech (cs) Skrývka		0
4	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		0
5	English (en) Overburden		0
6	Spanish (es) Sobrecarga (minería)		0
7	Estonian (et) Katend		0
8	French (fr) Mort-terrain		0
9	Italian (it) Overburden		0
10	Polish (pl) Nadkład		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 "Overburden" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Abraum (Bergbau)		266
2	English (en) Overburden		218
3	Estonian (et) Katend		39
4	Ukrainian (uk) Розкрив		33
5	Polish (pl) Nadkład		30
6	Russian (ru) Вскрыша		30
7	Czech (cs) Skrývka		24
8	French (fr) Mort-terrain		21
9	Spanish (es) Sobrecarga (minería)		13
10	Arabic (ar) غطاء فوقي		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic غطاء فوقي
cs	Czech Skrývka
de	German Abraum (Bergbau)
en	English Overburden
es	Spanish Sobrecarga (minería)
et	Estonian Katend
fr	French Mort-terrain
it	Italian Overburden
pl	Polish Nadkład
pt	Portuguese Pilha de estéril
ru	Russian Вскрыша
simple	Simple English Overburden
uk	Ukrainian Розкрив
zh	Chinese 覆盖层

Best Rank

English: #148559 11.2019

Global: #229195 11.2019

Best Rank

English: #51814 05.2005

Global: #53392 04.2004

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