Secretary of State

Quality:

Secretary of state - government positions that have "secretary" and "state" in their title, or equivalents in other languages. Article “Secretary of State” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.11 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 “Secretary of State”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12242 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1362 in March 2019
• Global: #5583 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1119 in November 2008
• Global: #3719 in November 2008

There are 30 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) Secretary of state		36.8485
2	German (de) Staatssekretär		33.7719
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Statssekretær		31.9577
4	Russian (ru) Статс-секретарь		27.3897
5	Portuguese (pt) Secretário de Estado		26.4336
6	Hungarian (hu) Államtitkár		25.5444
7	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État		22.933
8	Kazakh (kk) Мемлекеттік хатшы		21.1429
9	Esperanto (eo) Subministro		19.3753
10	Romanian (ro) Secretar de stat		18.9692

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Secretary of state		2 551 011
2	German (de) Staatssekretär		1 955 611
3	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État		697 838
4	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado		566 642
5	Russian (ru) Статс-секретарь		355 722
6	Portuguese (pt) Secretário de Estado		340 656
7	Italian (it) Segretario di Stato		174 442
8	Dutch (nl) Staatssecretaris		171 183
9	Swedish (sv) Statssekreterare		151 603
10	Hungarian (hu) Államtitkár		101 284

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) Secretary of state		3 619
2	German (de) Staatssekretär		2 448
3	Russian (ru) Статс-секретарь		1 111
4	Hungarian (hu) Államtitkár		893
5	Portuguese (pt) Secretário de Estado		390
6	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État		320
7	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado		306
8	Italian (it) Segretario di Stato		281
9	Persian (fa) استانداری		248
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quốc vụ khanh		230

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Secretary of state		339
2	German (de) Staatssekretär		235
3	French (fr) Secrétaire d'État		138
4	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado		67
5	Italian (it) Segretario di Stato		51
6	Russian (ru) Статс-секретарь		39
7	Portuguese (pt) Secretário de Estado		36
8	Swedish (sv) Statssekreterare		34
9	Finnish (fi) Valtiosihteeri		23
10	Dutch (nl) Staatssecretaris		21

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	Kazakh (kk) Мемлекеттік хатшы		1
2	Russian (ru) Статс-секретарь		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Quốc vụ khanh		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Щатски секретар		0
5	Danish (da) Statssekretær		0
6	German (de) Staatssekretär		0
7	English (en) Secretary of state		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Subministro		0
9	Spanish (es) Secretario de Estado		0
10	Persian (fa) استانداری		0

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

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