Carbon sink

Quality:

Carbon sink - natural or artificial process in which something absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Article “Carbon sink” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Carbon sink”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 864 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3280 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1830 in October 2018
• Global: #735 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #28275 in June 2025
• Global: #7725 in January 2014

There are 21 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) Carbon sink		76.4475
2	Korean (ko) 탄소흡수원		62.8452
3	French (fr) Puits de carbone		60.6433
4	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		57.0791
5	Greek (el) Δεξαμενή άνθρακα		44.1277
6	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		41.8036
7	Vietnamese (vi) Bể chứa carbon		39.0557
8	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		37.2403
9	Italian (it) Serbatoio di carbonio		23.8414
10	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		23.1206

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carbon sink		3 478 713
2	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		475 466
3	French (fr) Puits de carbone		466 526
4	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		440 073
5	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		233 907
6	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		136 588
7	Japanese (ja) 二酸化炭素吸収源		84 488
8	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		59 009
9	Swedish (sv) Kolsänka		45 479
10	Italian (it) Serbatoio di carbonio		22 158

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) Carbon sink		5 450
2	French (fr) Puits de carbone		932
3	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		686
4	Chinese (zh) 碳匯		446
5	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		341
6	Simple English (simple) Carbon sink		330
7	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		242
8	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		190
9	Korean (ko) 탄소흡수원		160
10	Japanese (ja) 二酸化炭素吸収源		135

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carbon sink		416
2	French (fr) Puits de carbone		140
3	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		94
4	Portuguese (pt) Sequestro de carbono		50
5	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		28
6	Finnish (fi) Hiilinielu		28
7	Swedish (sv) Kolsänka		19
8	Italian (it) Serbatoio di carbonio		17
9	Arabic (ar) مصرف كربون		12
10	Norwegian (no) Karbonsluk		9

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	French (fr) Puits de carbone		1
2	Arabic (ar) مصرف كربون		0
3	Catalan (ca) Embornal de carboni		0
4	Czech (cs) Propad uhlíku		0
5	Danish (da) Kulstoflager		0
6	German (de) Kohlenstoffsenke		0
7	Greek (el) Δεξαμενή άνθρακα		0
8	English (en) Carbon sink		0
9	Spanish (es) Sumidero de carbono		0
10	Persian (fa) مخزن کربن		0

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

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