Dust devil

Dust devil - meteorological phenomenon. Article “Dust devil” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Dust devil”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2208 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3793 in March 2016
• Global: #3532 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12028 in February 2020
• Global: #20583 in April 2017

There are 32 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Støvkvervel		73.7848
2	Chinese (zh) 塵捲風		71.8411
3	English (en) Dust devil		69.0401
4	Slovenian (sl) Prašni vrtinec		61.8165
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пиловий вихор		56.0024
6	Japanese (ja) 塵旋風		48.7752
7	French (fr) Tourbillon de poussière		43.1028
8	Armenian (hy) Փոշու սատանա		42.1275
9	Persian (fa) تنوره دیو		35.5596
10	Polish (pl) Wir pyłowy		30.3987

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Dust devil" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust devil		3 435 128
2	Japanese (ja) 塵旋風		491 245
3	German (de) Kleintrombe		391 692
4	Portuguese (pt) Redemoinho		369 581
5	Spanish (es) Remolino de arena		291 804
6	French (fr) Tourbillon de poussière		175 535
7	Russian (ru) Пыльный вихрь		154 734
8	Greek (el) Ανεμοστρόβιλος		117 856
9	Italian (it) Diavolo di sabbia		115 257
10	Polish (pl) Wir pyłowy		80 688

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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 "Dust devil" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dust devil		14 907
2	German (de) Kleintrombe		1 644
3	Japanese (ja) 塵旋風		989
4	French (fr) Tourbillon de poussière		918
5	Russian (ru) Пыльный вихрь		911
6	Italian (it) Diavolo di sabbia		887
7	Polish (pl) Wir pyłowy		497
8	Spanish (es) Remolino de arena		467
9	Portuguese (pt) Redemoinho		442
10	Chinese (zh) 塵捲風		343

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dust devil		358
2	German (de) Kleintrombe		70
3	French (fr) Tourbillon de poussière		49
4	Italian (it) Diavolo di sabbia		49
5	Spanish (es) Remolino de arena		40
6	Dutch (nl) Stofhoos		37
7	Japanese (ja) 塵旋風		36
8	Russian (ru) Пыльный вихрь		35
9	Portuguese (pt) Redemoinho		26
10	Finnish (fi) Pölypyörre		25

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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 "Dust devil" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Armenian (hy) Փոշու սատանա		2
2	Indonesian (id) Langkisau		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Пиловий вихор		1
4	Chinese (zh) 塵捲風		1
5	Arabic (ar) زوبعة غبارية		0
6	Catalan (ca) Diable de pols		0
7	Czech (cs) Rarášek (vír)		0
8	Danish (da) Støvhvirvel		0
9	German (de) Kleintrombe		0
10	Greek (el) Ανεμοστρόβιλος		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 "Dust devil" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dust devil		345
2	Portuguese (pt) Redemoinho		286
3	Japanese (ja) 塵旋風		236
4	Russian (ru) Пыльный вихрь		214
5	Chinese (zh) 塵捲風		211
6	Ukrainian (uk) Пиловий вихор		192
7	Persian (fa) تنوره دیو		111
8	Turkish (tr) Dalaz		101
9	French (fr) Tourbillon de poussière		67
10	German (de) Kleintrombe		58

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زوبعة غبارية
ca	Catalan Diable de pols
cs	Czech Rarášek (vír)
da	Danish Støvhvirvel
de	German Kleintrombe
el	Greek Ανεμοστρόβιλος
en	English Dust devil
es	Spanish Remolino de arena
eu	Basque Hauts-zurrunbilo
fa	Persian تنوره دیو
fi	Finnish Pölypyörre
fr	French Tourbillon de poussière
he	Hebrew עלעול חול
hu	Hungarian Porördög
hy	Armenian Փոշու սատանա
id	Indonesian Langkisau
it	Italian Diavolo di sabbia
ja	Japanese 塵旋風
ko	Korean 회오리바람
nl	Dutch Stofhoos
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Støvkvervel
no	Norwegian Støvvirvel
pl	Polish Wir pyłowy
pt	Portuguese Redemoinho
ru	Russian Пыльный вихрь
simple	Simple English Dust devil
sl	Slovenian Prašni vrtinec
sv	Swedish Stoftvirvel
tr	Turkish Dalaz
uk	Ukrainian Пиловий вихор
vi	Vietnamese Lốc cát
zh	Chinese 塵捲風

Best Rank

Simple English: #12028 02.2020

Global: #20583 04.2017

Best Rank

Simple English: #3793 03.2016

Global: #3532 12.2002

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