Director general

Director general - title given to the highest executive officer in some organizations. Article “Director general” in English Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 17 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Director general”, its content was written by 152 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 462 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1486 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6706 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8670 in April 2025
• Global: #31934 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #107264 in November 2022
• Global: #55699 in November 2014

There are 16 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, 2026 (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	English (en) Director general		43.0162
2	Arabic (ar) مدير عام (إدارة)		29.4801
3	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		25.7479
4	Urdu (ur) ڈائریکٹر جنرل		21.617
5	German (de) Generaldirektor		20.9367
6	Russian (ru) Генеральный директор		20.2414
7	Kazakh (kk) Бас директор		20.2146
8	Japanese (ja) 局長		17.9282
9	Chinese (zh) 總幹事		16.0188
10	Polish (pl) Dyrektor generalny		15.2236

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Director general" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Director general		1 491 537
2	Russian (ru) Генеральный директор		1 076 214
3	Polish (pl) Dyrektor generalny		716 715
4	Italian (it) Direttore generale		708 179
5	Japanese (ja) 局長		482 975
6	German (de) Generaldirektor		272 323
7	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		157 731
8	Dutch (nl) Directeur-generaal		86 598
9	Chinese (zh) 總幹事		37 395
10	Turkish (tr) Genel müdür		14 892

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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 "Director general" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Director general		3 104
2	Russian (ru) Генеральный директор		2 926
3	Japanese (ja) 局長		1 000
4	Italian (it) Direttore generale		741
5	German (de) Generaldirektor		409
6	Polish (pl) Dyrektor generalny		406
7	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		390
8	Dutch (nl) Directeur-generaal		253
9	Chinese (zh) 總幹事		154
10	Turkish (tr) Genel müdür		105

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Director general		152
2	German (de) Generaldirektor		62
3	Japanese (ja) 局長		43
4	Polish (pl) Dyrektor generalny		41
5	Italian (it) Direttore generale		38
6	Russian (ru) Генеральный директор		38
7	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		32
8	Dutch (nl) Directeur-generaal		23
9	Turkish (tr) Genel müdür		10
10	Arabic (ar) مدير عام (إدارة)		5

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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 "Director general" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		1
2	Arabic (ar) مدير عام (إدارة)		0
3	Belarusian (be) Генеральны дырэктар		0
4	German (de) Generaldirektor		0
5	Greek (el) Γενικός Διευθυντής		0
6	English (en) Director general		0
7	Hindi (hi) महानिर्देशक		0
8	Italian (it) Direttore generale		0
9	Japanese (ja) 局長		0
10	Kazakh (kk) Бас директор		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 "Director general" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Director general		1 486
2	German (de) Generaldirektor		1 208
3	Swedish (sv) Generaldirektör		1 059
4	Italian (it) Direttore generale		778
5	Russian (ru) Генеральный директор		705
6	Polish (pl) Dyrektor generalny		473
7	Japanese (ja) 局長		426
8	Dutch (nl) Directeur-generaal		212
9	Turkish (tr) Genel müdür		100
10	Arabic (ar) مدير عام (إدارة)		86

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مدير عام (إدارة)
be	Belarusian Генеральны дырэктар
de	German Generaldirektor
el	Greek Γενικός Διευθυντής
en	English Director general
hi	Hindi महानिर्देशक
it	Italian Direttore generale
ja	Japanese 局長
kk	Kazakh Бас директор
nl	Dutch Directeur-generaal
pl	Polish Dyrektor generalny
ru	Russian Генеральный директор
sv	Swedish Generaldirektör
tr	Turkish Genel müdür
ur	Urdu ڈائریکٹر جنرل
zh	Chinese 總幹事

Best Rank

English: #107264 11.2022

Global: #55699 11.2014

Best Rank

English: #8670 04.2025

Global: #31934 10.2004

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