Desalination

Quality:

Desalination - removal of salts and minerals from a substance, best known is the removal of salt from seawater to obtain drinking water. Article “Desalination” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Desalination”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2398 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4511 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #181 in August 2015
• Global: #2633 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1082 in May 2008
• Global: #7888 in April 2015

There are 40 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	Hindi (hi) विलवणन		85.7143
2	English (en) Desalination		84.9617
3	French (fr) Dessalement		64.6674
4	Hebrew (he) התפלה		58.7938
5	Indonesian (id) Desalinasi		57.1636
6	German (de) Meerwasserentsalzung		49.6128
7	Chinese (zh) 海水淡化		48.6857
8	Croatian (hr) Odslanjivanje vode		44.1097
9	Estonian (et) Vee magestamine		38.5004
10	Malay (ms) Penyahgaraman		37.802

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Desalination		7 544 646
2	Spanish (es) Desalinización		1 829 901
3	German (de) Meerwasserentsalzung		1 269 746
4	Arabic (ar) تحلية مياه		898 784
5	French (fr) Dessalement		881 393
6	Japanese (ja) 海水淡水化		780 571
7	Portuguese (pt) Dessalinização		580 181
8	Russian (ru) Опреснение воды		416 038
9	Chinese (zh) 海水淡化		406 121
10	Hebrew (he) התפלה		367 717

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) Desalination		14 394
2	German (de) Meerwasserentsalzung		3 624
3	Japanese (ja) 海水淡水化		1 851
4	French (fr) Dessalement		1 595
5	Chinese (zh) 海水淡化		1 069
6	Russian (ru) Опреснение воды		1 030
7	Spanish (es) Desalinización		1 029
8	Arabic (ar) تحلية مياه		824
9	Italian (it) Dissalazione		675
10	Hebrew (he) התפלה		482

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Desalination		921
2	German (de) Meerwasserentsalzung		276
3	French (fr) Dessalement		209
4	Hebrew (he) התפלה		156
5	Spanish (es) Desalinización		118
6	Italian (it) Dissalazione		71
7	Russian (ru) Опреснение воды		54
8	Arabic (ar) تحلية مياه		52
9	Japanese (ja) 海水淡水化		49
10	Dutch (nl) Ontziltingsinstallatie		49

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	English (en) Desalination		3
2	Japanese (ja) 海水淡水化		1
3	Arabic (ar) تحلية مياه		0
4	Czech (cs) Odsolování		0
5	German (de) Meerwasserentsalzung		0
6	Greek (el) Αφαλάτωση		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Sensaligo		0
8	Spanish (es) Desalinización		0
9	Estonian (et) Vee magestamine		0
10	Basque (eu) Gatzgabetze		0

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

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