Sandstorm

Quality:

Dust storm - meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. Article “Sandstorm” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Sandstorm”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1649 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 79 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 5950 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2717 in February 2011
• Global: #2329 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #6915 in February 2020
• Global: #8659 in July 2011

There are 51 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	Malay (ms) Ribut pasir		61.1513
2	Japanese (ja) 砂嵐		60.999
3	English (en) Dust storm		49.5943
4	French (fr) Tempête de sable		45.4175
5	Persian (fa) طوفان شن		45.2176
6	Spanish (es) Tormenta de polvo		43.6604
7	Slovenian (sl) Peščeni vihar		43.5094
8	Russian (ru) Пыльная буря		40.8732
9	German (de) Sandsturm		40.6
10	Korean (ko) 모래폭풍		38.4776

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust storm		3 841 241
2	Russian (ru) Пыльная буря		760 800
3	Spanish (es) Tormenta de polvo		529 865
4	Japanese (ja) 砂嵐		449 953
5	German (de) Sandsturm		365 387
6	French (fr) Tempête de sable		357 275
7	Polish (pl) Burza piaskowa		310 573
8	Chinese (zh) 沙尘暴		290 245
9	Arabic (ar) عاصفة رملية		230 686
10	Portuguese (pt) Tempestade de areia		149 413

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust storm		7 197
2	Russian (ru) Пыльная буря		1 040
3	Chinese (zh) 沙尘暴		994
4	Japanese (ja) 砂嵐		853
5	German (de) Sandsturm		677
6	Spanish (es) Tormenta de polvo		633
7	French (fr) Tempête de sable		531
8	Italian (it) Tempesta di sabbia		418
9	Polish (pl) Burza piaskowa		259
10	Portuguese (pt) Tempestade de areia		190

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dust storm		518
2	German (de) Sandsturm		140
3	French (fr) Tempête de sable		120
4	Russian (ru) Пыльная буря		75
5	Chinese (zh) 沙尘暴		65
6	Dutch (nl) Zandstorm		59
7	Hebrew (he) סופת חול		54
8	Spanish (es) Tormenta de polvo		44
9	Japanese (ja) 砂嵐		40
10	Polish (pl) Burza piaskowa		38

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Αμμοθύελλα		2
2	Spanish (es) Tormenta de polvo		2
3	Japanese (ja) 砂嵐		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Пилова буря		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qum fırtınası		1
6	Kazakh (kk) Шаңды дауыл		1
7	Russian (ru) Пыльная буря		1
8	Arabic (ar) عاصفة رملية		0
9	Belarusian (be) Пясчаная бура		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Пясъчна буря		0

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

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