Lime kiln

Lime kiln - kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide). Article “Lime kiln” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Lime kiln”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 618 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2701 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1472 in November 2014
• Global: #12069 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8984 in August 2010
• Global: #99555 in November 2014

There are 23 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	Basque (eu) Karobi		52.0346
2	English (en) Lime kiln		49.2829
3	Dutch (nl) Kalkoven		46.2046
4	French (fr) Four à chaux		42.9251
5	Portuguese (pt) Forno de cal		37.0226
6	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		35.4346
7	Serbian (sr) Кречарство		32.8476
8	Norwegian (no) Kalkovn		30.5022
9	Estonian (et) Lubjaahi		29.3776
10	Galician (gl) Forno de cal		29.0818

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lime kiln" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lime kiln		1 093 518
2	German (de) Kalkofen		345 327
3	French (fr) Four à chaux		248 209
4	Polish (pl) Wapiennik (budowla)		133 247
5	Dutch (nl) Kalkoven		89 742
6	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		88 698
7	Czech (cs) Vápenka		59 304
8	Italian (it) Calcara (fornace)		50 352
9	Catalan (ca) Forn de calç		44 254
10	Japanese (ja) 石灰窯		41 872

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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 "Lime kiln" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lime kiln		4 338
2	German (de) Kalkofen		1 029
3	French (fr) Four à chaux		993
4	Dutch (nl) Kalkoven		409
5	Polish (pl) Wapiennik (budowla)		278
6	Catalan (ca) Forn de calç		224
7	Italian (it) Calcara (fornace)		222
8	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		201
9	Czech (cs) Vápenka		174
10	Swedish (sv) Kalktillverkning		171

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lime kiln		143
2	German (de) Kalkofen		90
3	French (fr) Four à chaux		82
4	Dutch (nl) Kalkoven		59
5	Norwegian (no) Kalkovn		39
6	Catalan (ca) Forn de calç		30
7	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		26
8	Italian (it) Calcara (fornace)		22
9	Swedish (sv) Kalktillverkning		22
10	Czech (cs) Vápenka		21

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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 "Lime kiln" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Four à chaux		1
2	Swedish (sv) Kalktillverkning		1
3	Arabic (ar) قمين الجير		0
4	Catalan (ca) Forn de calç		0
5	Czech (cs) Vápenka		0
6	German (de) Kalkofen		0
7	English (en) Lime kiln		0
8	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		0
9	Estonian (et) Lubjaahi		0
10	Basque (eu) Karobi		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 "Lime kiln" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lime kiln		635
2	German (de) Kalkofen		473
3	French (fr) Four à chaux		464
4	Catalan (ca) Forn de calç		293
5	Dutch (nl) Kalkoven		167
6	Polish (pl) Wapiennik (budowla)		146
7	Czech (cs) Vápenka		96
8	Spanish (es) Horno de cal		72
9	Swedish (sv) Kalktillverkning		71
10	Serbian (sr) Кречарство		56

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قمين الجير
ca	Catalan Forn de calç
cs	Czech Vápenka
de	German Kalkofen
en	English Lime kiln
es	Spanish Horno de cal
et	Estonian Lubjaahi
eu	Basque Karobi
fa	Persian کوره پخت آهک
fr	French Four à chaux
gl	Galician Forno de cal
he	Hebrew כבשן סיד
it	Italian Calcara (fornace)
ja	Japanese 石灰窯
nl	Dutch Kalkoven
no	Norwegian Kalkovn
pl	Polish Wapiennik (budowla)
pt	Portuguese Forno de cal
simple	Simple English Lime kiln
sl	Slovenian Apneničarstvo
sr	Serbian Кречарство
sv	Swedish Kalktillverkning
zh	Chinese 石灰窑

Best Rank

Simple English: #8984 08.2010

Global: #99555 11.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #1472 11.2014

Global: #12069 02.2003

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