Dust storm

simple

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

Dust storm

Quality:

Dust storm - meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. Article “Dust storm” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.19 points.

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 “Dust storm”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1644 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5774 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #594 in May 2015
  • Global: #2329 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #5604 in November 2013
  • Global: #8816 in July 2011

There are 49 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Malay (ms)
Ribut pasir
62.2865
2Japanese (ja)
砂嵐
61.3935
3English (en)
Dust storm
51.1944
4Persian (fa)
طوفان شن
44.7215
5Slovenian (sl)
Peščeni vihar
43.6823
6Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
43.3066
7Russian (ru)
Пыльная буря
40.8394
8German (de)
Sandsturm
40.7596
9French (fr)
Tempête de sable
38.8495
10Catalan (ca)
Tempesta de pols
38.1565
More...

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

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Dust storm" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dust storm
3 736 139
2Russian (ru)
Пыльная буря
684 856
3Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
521 520
4Japanese (ja)
砂嵐
437 828
5German (de)
Sandsturm
356 610
6French (fr)
Tempête de sable
343 191
7Polish (pl)
Burza piaskowa
306 057
8Chinese (zh)
沙尘暴
279 656
9Arabic (ar)
عاصفة رملية
226 254
10Portuguese (pt)
Tempestade de areia
146 513
More...

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

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Dust storm" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dust storm
11 842
2Russian (ru)
Пыльная буря
2 339
3Chinese (zh)
沙尘暴
1 539
4Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
1 053
5Japanese (ja)
砂嵐
933
6French (fr)
Tempête de sable
702
7German (de)
Sandsturm
660
8Italian (it)
Tempesta di sabbia
444
9Polish (pl)
Burza piaskowa
421
10Simple English (simple)
Dust storm
332
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Dust storm" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dust storm
510
2German (de)
Sandsturm
137
3French (fr)
Tempête de sable
117
4Russian (ru)
Пыльная буря
73
5Chinese (zh)
沙尘暴
65
6Dutch (nl)
Zandstorm
59
7Hebrew (he)
סופת חול
52
8Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
42
9Japanese (ja)
砂嵐
40
10Polish (pl)
Burza piaskowa
38
More...

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

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Dust storm" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dust storm
2
2Armenian (hy)
Փոշոտ փոթորիկ
2
3Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
1
4Arabic (ar)
عاصفة رملية
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Qum fırtınası
0
6Belarusian (be)
Пясчаная бура
0
7Bulgarian (bg)
Пясъчна буря
0
8Catalan (ca)
Tempesta de pols
0
9Czech (cs)
Písečná bouře
0
10Danish (da)
Sandstorm
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Dust storm" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Dust storm
746
2Russian (ru)
Пыльная буря
486
3French (fr)
Tempête de sable
429
4Japanese (ja)
砂嵐
401
5Ukrainian (uk)
Пилова буря
353
6Chinese (zh)
沙尘暴
338
7Portuguese (pt)
Tempestade de areia
302
8Arabic (ar)
عاصفة رملية
205
9Spanish (es)
Tormenta de polvo
202
10German (de)
Sandsturm
180
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Simple English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
عاصفة رملية
azAzerbaijani
Qum fırtınası
beBelarusian
Пясчаная бура
bgBulgarian
Пясъчна буря
caCatalan
Tempesta de pols
csCzech
Písečná bouře
daDanish
Sandstorm
deGerman
Sandsturm
elGreek
Αμμοθύελλα
enEnglish
Dust storm
eoEsperanto
Sabloŝtormo
esSpanish
Tormenta de polvo
etEstonian
Liivatorm
euBasque
Hondar ekaitz
faPersian
طوفان شن
fiFinnish
Hiekkamyrsky
frFrench
Tempête de sable
glGalician
Tormenta de po
heHebrew
סופת חול
hrCroatian
Pješčana oluja
hyArmenian
Փոշոտ փոթորիկ
idIndonesian
Badai pasir
itItalian
Tempesta di sabbia
jaJapanese
砂嵐
kkKazakh
Шаңды дауыл
koKorean
모래폭풍
laLatin
Procella pulveris
ltLithuanian
Smėlio audra
msMalay
Ribut pasir
nlDutch
Zandstorm
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sandstorm
noNorwegian
Sandstorm
plPolish
Burza piaskowa
ptPortuguese
Tempestade de areia
roRomanian
Furtună de nisip
ruRussian
Пыльная буря
shSerbo-Croatian
Pješčana oluja
simpleSimple English
Dust storm
skSlovak
Prachová búrka
slSlovenian
Peščeni vihar
srSerbian
Peščana oluja
svSwedish
Sandstorm
taTamil
புழுதிப் புயல்
thThai
พายุฝุ่น
trTurkish
Kum fırtınası
ukUkrainian
Пилова буря
urUrdu
طوفان گرد و باد
viVietnamese
Bão cát
zhChinese
沙尘暴

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5604
11.2013
Global:
#8816
07.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#594
05.2015
Global:
#2329
02.2011

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Dust storm from Wikipedia articles about Interstellar, Dust Bowl, Storm, Natural disaster and Woody Guthrie. Whereas reading the article about Dust storm people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Haboob, Dust Bowl, Al Asad Airbase, 2009 Australian dust storm and List of dust storms with visibility of 1/4 mile or less, or meters or less.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 砂嵐
simple: Dust storm

News from 21 December 2025

On 21 December 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Anthony Joshua, James Ransone, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Jake Paul, Wake Up Dead Man, Stranger Things, Ghislaine Maxwell, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, XXXTentacion, President of the Government of Morocco, Michigan Auto Law, New York, I Love You, Andrew Tate, Manon Bannerman, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Black, List of sex positions.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information