Solar updraft tower

Solar updraft tower - thermal convection power plant. Article “Solar updraft tower” in English Wikipedia has 88.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 94 references and 12 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 “Solar updraft tower” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Solar updraft tower”, its content was written by 292 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 867 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 91 times in English Wikipedia and cited 386 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1908 in April 2003
• Global: #3212 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #59574 in January 2010
• Global: #58998 in July 2008

There are 18 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) Solar updraft tower		88.0573
2	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		62.7147
3	Japanese (ja) ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー		52.173
4	Slovak (sk) Slnečná prúdová veža		51.8084
5	Hebrew (he) ארובה סולרית		51.433
6	Polish (pl) Wieża słoneczna		42.1354
7	Croatian (hr) Sunčeva uzgonska elektrana		34.5177
8	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		32.6553
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Solarna uzgonska elektrana		26.0298
10	Catalan (ca) Torre solar		24.4676

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Solar updraft tower" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar updraft tower		1 209 529
2	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		560 768
3	Spanish (es) Torre solar de convección		192 609
4	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		143 329
5	Polish (pl) Wieża słoneczna		89 267
6	Japanese (ja) ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー		88 291
7	Dutch (nl) Zonnetoren		63 512
8	Finnish (fi) Ilmavirtavoimala		23 922
9	Persian (fa) برج مکشی خورشیدی		23 050
10	Slovak (sk) Slnečná prúdová veža		14 631

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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 "Solar updraft tower" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar updraft tower		2 416
2	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		921
3	Japanese (ja) ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー		255
4	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		220
5	Spanish (es) Torre solar de convección		121
6	Italian (it) Torre solare (energia elettrica)		101
7	Persian (fa) برج مکشی خورشیدی		97
8	Polish (pl) Wieża słoneczna		93
9	Thai (th) หอพลังลม		78
10	Finnish (fi) Ilmavirtavoimala		72

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Solar updraft tower		292
2	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		217
3	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		111
4	Spanish (es) Torre solar de convección		44
5	Dutch (nl) Zonnetoren		42
6	Polish (pl) Wieża słoneczna		32
7	Finnish (fi) Ilmavirtavoimala		29
8	Japanese (ja) ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー		26
9	Hebrew (he) ארובה סולרית		14
10	Persian (fa) برج مکشی خورشیدی		12

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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 "Solar updraft tower" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		1
2	English (en) Solar updraft tower		1
3	Spanish (es) Torre solar de convección		1
4	Arabic (ar) برج شمسي		0
5	Catalan (ca) Torre solar		0
6	Persian (fa) برج مکشی خورشیدی		0
7	Finnish (fi) Ilmavirtavoimala		0
8	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		0
9	Hebrew (he) ארובה סולרית		0
10	Croatian (hr) Sunčeva uzgonska elektrana		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 "Solar updraft tower" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Solar updraft tower		91
2	Persian (fa) برج مکشی خورشیدی		57
3	Finnish (fi) Ilmavirtavoimala		44
4	German (de) Aufwindkraftwerk		43
5	Arabic (ar) برج شمسي		37
6	French (fr) Tour solaire (cheminée)		17
7	Thai (th) หอพลังลม		17
8	Japanese (ja) ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー		14
9	Slovenian (sl) Sončna vzgonska elektrarna		14
10	Spanish (es) Torre solar de convección		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic برج شمسي
ca	Catalan Torre solar
de	German Aufwindkraftwerk
en	English Solar updraft tower
es	Spanish Torre solar de convección
fa	Persian برج مکشی خورشیدی
fi	Finnish Ilmavirtavoimala
fr	French Tour solaire (cheminée)
he	Hebrew ארובה סולרית
hr	Croatian Sunčeva uzgonska elektrana
it	Italian Torre solare (energia elettrica)
ja	Japanese ソーラー・アップドラフト・タワー
nl	Dutch Zonnetoren
pl	Polish Wieża słoneczna
sh	Serbo-Croatian Solarna uzgonska elektrana
sk	Slovak Slnečná prúdová veža
sl	Slovenian Sončna vzgonska elektrarna
th	Thai หอพลังลม

Best Rank

English: #59574 01.2010

Global: #58998 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #1908 04.2003

Global: #3212 01.2003

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