Death by burning

Quality:

Death by burning - execution method. Article “Death by burning” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 215 references and 29 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.

In June 2025 the article “Death by burning” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Death by burning”, its content was written by 712 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1915 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1390 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6727 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40 in November 2002
• Global: #272 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5426 in February 2015
• Global: #8620 in February 2015

There are 32 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) Death by burning		91.2926
2	Swedish (sv) Bränning på bål		51.6084
3	Russian (ru) Сожжение		49.8335
4	French (fr) Bûcher		49.8043
5	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		46.5888
6	Hungarian (hu) Máglyahalál		38.2144
7	Portuguese (pt) Morte na fogueira		37.6956
8	Esperanto (eo) Brulŝtiparo		37.2327
9	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		28.1437
10	Ukrainian (uk) Спалення		26.5418

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Death by burning		7 680 051
2	Japanese (ja) 火刑		1 501 815
3	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		1 132 454
4	Russian (ru) Сожжение		964 470
5	French (fr) Bûcher		603 686
6	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		503 258
7	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		464 237
8	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		368 213
9	Dutch (nl) Brandstapel		203 602
10	Chinese (zh) 火刑		191 465

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) Death by burning		35 474
2	Japanese (ja) 火刑		4 794
3	Russian (ru) Сожжение		3 698
4	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		2 842
5	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		2 514
6	French (fr) Bûcher		1 566
7	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		1 227
8	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		942
9	Persian (fa) زنده سوزاندن		817
10	Chinese (zh) 火刑		809

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Death by burning		712
2	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		170
3	French (fr) Bûcher		143
4	Russian (ru) Сожжение		118
5	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		92
6	Dutch (nl) Brandstapel		85
7	Japanese (ja) 火刑		62
8	Polish (pl) Spalenie na stosie		56
9	Swedish (sv) Bränning på bål		50
10	Danish (da) Brænding på bål		41

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	English (en) Death by burning		4
2	German (de) Scheiterhaufen		1
3	Spanish (es) Muerte en la hoguera		1
4	French (fr) Bûcher		1
5	Italian (it) Morte sul rogo		1
6	Japanese (ja) 火刑		1
7	Russian (ru) Сожжение		1
8	Arabic (ar) إعدام حرقا		0
9	Catalan (ca) Mort a la foguera		0
10	Czech (cs) Upálení na hranici		0

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

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