Seal (device)

Quality:

Seal - mark of a personal distinctive emblem intended to guarantee the authenticity of the author of a document onto which it is printed, embossed or affixed. Article “Seal (device)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Seal (device)”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1521 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12827 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1192 in July 2019
• Global: #5395 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4689 in August 2010
• Global: #19725 in July 2014

There are 46 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	Japanese (ja) 印章		88.2377
2	English (en) Seal (emblem)		75.1707
3	German (de) Siegel		53.3512
4	Russian (ru) Удостоверяющая печать		46.6568
5	Dutch (nl) Zegel (waarmerk)		44.4645
6	Spanish (es) Sello (cuño)		40.6774
7	French (fr) Sceau		39.8599
8	Korean (ko) 도장		39.3975
9	Swedish (sv) Sigill		38.4786
10	Chinese (zh) 印章		35.3998

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Seal (emblem)		3 958 654
2	Japanese (ja) 印章		1 844 632
3	German (de) Siegel		883 837
4	French (fr) Sceau		755 145
5	Spanish (es) Sello (cuño)		294 960
6	Chinese (zh) 印章		253 861
7	Russian (ru) Удостоверяющая печать		243 644
8	Polish (pl) Pieczęć		225 071
9	Portuguese (pt) Sinete		218 182
10	Italian (it) Sigillo		173 998

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Seal (emblem)		17 508
2	Japanese (ja) 印章		2 572
3	German (de) Siegel		1 446
4	French (fr) Sceau		1 315
5	Chinese (zh) 印章		1 035
6	Russian (ru) Удостоверяющая печать		985
7	Simple English (simple) Seal (device)		571
8	Portuguese (pt) Sinete		566
9	Italian (it) Sigillo		497
10	Polish (pl) Pieczęć		403

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Seal (emblem)		295
2	German (de) Siegel		203
3	Japanese (ja) 印章		157
4	French (fr) Sceau		123
5	Dutch (nl) Zegel (waarmerk)		69
6	Italian (it) Sigillo		46
7	Chinese (zh) 印章		46
8	Norwegian (no) Segl		41
9	Spanish (es) Sello (cuño)		37
10	Danish (da) Segl (mærke)		35

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Lithuanian (lt) Antspaudas		2
2	German (de) Siegel		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Sigelo		1
4	Arabic (ar) ختم		0
5	Belarusian (be) Пячатка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Печат (приспособление)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Segell (autenticació)		0
8	Czech (cs) Pečeť		0
9	Danish (da) Segl (mærke)		0
10	Greek (el) Σφραγίδα		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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