Secretary of State for the Colonies

Secretary of State for the Colonies - British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies. Article “Secretary of State for the Colonies” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 10 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 “Secretary of State for the Colonies”, its content was written by 106 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 227 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1052 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1991 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7483 in January 2004
• Global: #21350 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #104531 in January 2008
• Global: #161376 in January 2008

There are 13 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	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		54.4902
2	Dutch (nl) Lijst van Britse ministers voor Koloniale Zaken		45.0332
3	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		34.9449
4	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		33.9944
5	Arabic (ar) وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا		33.6624
6	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		30.6634
7	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		30.0679
8	Chinese (zh) 殖民地事務大臣		17.7816
9	Russian (ru) Министр колоний Великобритании		12.3136
10	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		11.2129

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Secretary of State for the Colonies" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		642 853
2	Polish (pl) Sekretarze stanu do spraw kolonii		32 636
3	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		27 254
4	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		24 254
5	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		16 709
6	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		16 393
7	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		6 986
8	Arabic (ar) وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا		5 444
9	Chinese (zh) 殖民地事務大臣		3 051
10	Russian (ru) Министр колоний Великобритании		2 537

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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 "Secretary of State for the Colonies" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		2 904
2	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		151
3	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		117
4	Chinese (zh) 殖民地事務大臣		107
5	Russian (ru) Министр колоний Великобритании		86
6	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		69
7	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		62
8	Arabic (ar) وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا		55
9	Polish (pl) Sekretarze stanu do spraw kolonii		37
10	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		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 "Secretary of State for the Colonies" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		106
2	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		31
3	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		29
4	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		15
5	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		13
6	Polish (pl) Sekretarze stanu do spraw kolonii		10
7	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		7
8	Dutch (nl) Lijst van Britse ministers voor Koloniale Zaken		4
9	Russian (ru) Министр колоний Великобритании		4
10	Arabic (ar) وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا		3

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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 "Secretary of State for the Colonies" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		1
2	Arabic (ar) وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا		0
3	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		0
4	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		0
5	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		0
6	Estonian (et) Kolooniate riigisekretär		0
7	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		0
8	Indonesian (id) Sekretaris Negara untuk Koloni		0
9	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		0
10	Dutch (nl) Lijst van Britse ministers voor Koloniale Zaken		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 "Secretary of State for the Colonies" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Secretary of State for the Colonies		1 052
2	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)		201
3	Polish (pl) Sekretarze stanu do spraw kolonii		132
4	Japanese (ja) 植民地大臣		120
5	Italian (it) Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie		114
6	Russian (ru) Министр колоний Великобритании		97
7	Czech (cs) Ministr kolonií Spojeného království		85
8	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado para las Colonias		63
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van Britse ministers voor Koloniale Zaken		39
10	Chinese (zh) 殖民地事務大臣		37

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وزارة المستعمرات في بريطانيا
cs	Czech Ministr kolonií Spojeného království
en	English Secretary of State for the Colonies
es	Spanish Secretario de Estado para las Colonias
et	Estonian Kolooniate riigisekretär
fr	French Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies (Royaume-Uni)
id	Indonesian Sekretaris Negara untuk Koloni
it	Italian Segreteria di Stato per le Colonie
ja	Japanese 植民地大臣
nl	Dutch Lijst van Britse ministers voor Koloniale Zaken
pl	Polish Sekretarze stanu do spraw kolonii
ru	Russian Министр колоний Великобритании
zh	Chinese 殖民地事務大臣

Best Rank

English: #104531 01.2008

Global: #161376 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #7483 01.2004

Global: #21350 01.2004

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