Sahara pump theory

Sahara pump theory - hypothesis about migration of species between Africa and Eurasia. Article “Sahara pump theory” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Sahara pump theory”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1107 in December 2010
• Global: #57321 in February 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5865 in August 2010
• Global: #122157 in May 2018

There are 14 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	Finnish (fi) Saharan pumppu -teoria		41.9136
2	English (en) Sahara pump theory		37.0524
3	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		31.9871
4	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія Сахарського насосу		26.4623
5	Romanian (ro) Teoria pompei sahariene		22.6411
6	Simple English (simple) Sahara pump theory		21.7638
7	Indonesian (id) Teori pompa Sahara		19.4252
8	Norwegian (no) Saharisk pumpeteori		17.5091
9	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		14.0901
10	Turkish (tr) Sahara pompa teorisi		13.2618

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sahara pump theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sahara pump theory		815 475
2	Russian (ru) Теория сахарского насоса		32 851
3	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		16 090
4	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		15 555
5	Persian (fa) نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ		13 055
6	Simple English (simple) Sahara pump theory		9 837
7	Finnish (fi) Saharan pumppu -teoria		8 454
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія Сахарського насосу		5 476
9	Romanian (ro) Teoria pompei sahariene		3 740
10	Chinese (zh) 撒哈拉泵理论		2 949

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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 "Sahara pump theory" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sahara pump theory		2 592
2	Simple English (simple) Sahara pump theory		241
3	Russian (ru) Теория сахарского насоса		152
4	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		134
5	Chinese (zh) 撒哈拉泵理论		81
6	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		53
7	Persian (fa) نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ		34
8	Romanian (ro) Teoria pompei sahariene		29
9	Norwegian (no) Saharisk pumpeteori		20
10	Turkish (tr) Sahara pompa teorisi		18

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sahara pump theory		101
2	Finnish (fi) Saharan pumppu -teoria		14
3	Norwegian (no) Saharisk pumpeteori		11
4	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		10
5	Russian (ru) Теория сахарского насоса		10
6	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		9
7	Simple English (simple) Sahara pump theory		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія Сахарського насосу		8
9	Persian (fa) نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ		6
10	Dutch (nl) Saharapomp-hypothese		4

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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 "Sahara pump theory" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Teori pompa Sahara		1
2	English (en) Sahara pump theory		0
3	Persian (fa) نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ		0
4	Finnish (fi) Saharan pumppu -teoria		0
5	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		0
6	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		0
7	Dutch (nl) Saharapomp-hypothese		0
8	Norwegian (no) Saharisk pumpeteori		0
9	Romanian (ro) Teoria pompei sahariene		0
10	Russian (ru) Теория сахарского насоса		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 "Sahara pump theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sahara pump theory		33
2	Persian (fa) نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ		17
3	French (fr) Effet de pompe du Sahara		16
4	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія Сахарського насосу		9
5	Italian (it) Pompa sahariana		6
6	Dutch (nl) Saharapomp-hypothese		4
7	Romanian (ro) Teoria pompei sahariene		4
8	Russian (ru) Теория сахарского насоса		4
9	Chinese (zh) 撒哈拉泵理论		3
10	Finnish (fi) Saharan pumppu -teoria		2

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#	Language	Value
en	English Sahara pump theory
fa	Persian نظریه پمپ صحرای بزرگ
fi	Finnish Saharan pumppu -teoria
fr	French Effet de pompe du Sahara
id	Indonesian Teori pompa Sahara
it	Italian Pompa sahariana
nl	Dutch Saharapomp-hypothese
no	Norwegian Saharisk pumpeteori
ro	Romanian Teoria pompei sahariene
ru	Russian Теория сахарского насоса
simple	Simple English Sahara pump theory
tr	Turkish Sahara pompa teorisi
uk	Ukrainian Теорія Сахарського насосу
zh	Chinese 撒哈拉泵理论

Best Rank

Simple English: #5865 08.2010

Global: #122157 05.2018

Best Rank

Simple English: #1107 12.2010

Global: #57321 02.2014

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