Surface mining

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Surface mining

Quality:

Surface mining - broad category of mining. Article “Surface mining” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.21 points.

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 “Surface mining”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1366 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2175 in December 2013
  • Global: #15481 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #4898 in February 2018
  • Global: #88253 in April 2008

There are 17 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
1English (en)
Surface mining
63.0773
2French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
40.2511
3Portuguese (pt)
Mineração a céu aberto
23.7856
4Thai (th)
เหมืองผิวดิน
23.5864
5Serbian (sr)
Површинска експлоатација
19.943
6Arabic (ar)
تعدين سطحي
19.7952
7Ukrainian (uk)
Відкрите розроблення родовищ
19.719
8Turkish (tr)
Açık ocak madenciliği
15.1566
9Russian (ru)
Открытые горные работы
14.323
10Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
12.3366
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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 "Surface mining" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Surface mining
2 118 185
2Portuguese (pt)
Mineração a céu aberto
176 744
3Russian (ru)
Открытые горные работы
153 796
4Turkish (tr)
Açık ocak madenciliği
51 861
5Malay (ms)
Lombong dedah
37 692
6Ukrainian (uk)
Відкрите розроблення родовищ
37 659
7French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
36 834
8Indonesian (id)
Penambangan terbuka
27 408
9Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
24 045
10Kazakh (kk)
Ашық тау кен ісі
20 196
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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 "Surface mining" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Surface mining
5 695
2French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
381
3Russian (ru)
Открытые горные работы
368
4Simple English (simple)
Surface mining
281
5Turkish (tr)
Açık ocak madenciliği
143
6Portuguese (pt)
Mineração a céu aberto
136
7Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
67
8Malay (ms)
Lombong dedah
65
9Indonesian (id)
Penambangan terbuka
52
10Ukrainian (uk)
Відкрите розроблення родовищ
43
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Surface mining" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Surface mining
231
2Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
24
3Portuguese (pt)
Mineração a céu aberto
19
4Russian (ru)
Открытые горные работы
18
5Turkish (tr)
Açık ocak madenciliği
18
6French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
13
7Estonian (et)
Avakaevandamine
10
8Serbian (sr)
Површинска експлоатација
10
9Ukrainian (uk)
Відкрите розроблення родовищ
10
10Kazakh (kk)
Ашық тау кен ісі
7
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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 "Surface mining" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Surface mining
1
2French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
1
3Arabic (ar)
تعدين سطحي
0
4Esperanto (eo)
Subĉiela minado
0
5Estonian (et)
Avakaevandamine
0
6Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
0
7Indonesian (id)
Penambangan terbuka
0
8Kazakh (kk)
Ашық тау кен ісі
0
9Korean (ko)
노천광
0
10Malay (ms)
Lombong dedah
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Surface mining" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Surface mining
764
2Russian (ru)
Открытые горные работы
135
3French (fr)
Excavation à ciel ouvert
98
4Ukrainian (uk)
Відкрите розроблення родовищ
81
5Turkish (tr)
Açık ocak madenciliği
45
6Portuguese (pt)
Mineração a céu aberto
44
7Hungarian (hu)
Külfejtés
43
8Arabic (ar)
تعدين سطحي
42
9Serbian (sr)
Површинска експлоатација
28
10Indonesian (id)
Penambangan terbuka
26
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Scores

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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تعدين سطحي
enEnglish
Surface mining
eoEsperanto
Subĉiela minado
etEstonian
Avakaevandamine
frFrench
Excavation à ciel ouvert
huHungarian
Külfejtés
idIndonesian
Penambangan terbuka
kkKazakh
Ашық тау кен ісі
koKorean
노천광
msMalay
Lombong dedah
ptPortuguese
Mineração a céu aberto
ruRussian
Открытые горные работы
simpleSimple English
Surface mining
srSerbian
Површинска експлоатација
thThai
เหมืองผิวดิน
trTurkish
Açık ocak madenciliği
ukUkrainian
Відкрите розроблення родовищ

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4898
02.2018
Global:
#88253
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2175
12.2013
Global:
#15481
10.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Surface mining from Wikipedia articles about United Airlines Flight 93, Nauru, Centralia mine fire, Open-pit mining and Mining. Whereas reading the article about Surface mining people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Mining, Open-pit mining, Mountaintop removal mining, Bagger 288 and Bucket-wheel excavator.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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