William Cecil

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520-1598). Article “William Cecil” in Estonian Wikipedia has 6.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “William Cecil”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 813 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 2557 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #92 in May 2003
• Global: #7400 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #17713 in December 2020
• Global: #25852 in October 2017

There are 27 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) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		81.8563
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)		59.8727
3	Greek (el) Γουλιέλμος Σέσιλ, 1ος βαρόνος Μπέργκλεϋ		53.9119
4	Hebrew (he) ויליאם ססיל		39.808
5	Italian (it) William Cecil, I barone Burghley		35.9221
6	Czech (cs) William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley		35.7222
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вільям Сесіл		33.109
8	Romanian (ro) William Cecil, I Baron Burghley		32.627
9	Latin (la) Gulielmus Cecil		31.697
10	Norwegian (no) William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley		29.0734

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

The most popular language versions of the article "William Cecil" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		3 060 323
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)		257 393
3	German (de) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		215 208
4	Russian (ru) Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли		185 434
5	Spanish (es) William Cecil		168 124
6	Italian (it) William Cecil, I barone Burghley		99 756
7	French (fr) William Cecil (1er baron Burghley)		87 863
8	Polish (pl) William Cecil		53 714
9	Portuguese (pt) William Cecil, 1.º Barão Burghley		46 458
10	Dutch (nl) William Cecil (1520-1598)		18 846

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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 "William Cecil" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		10 875
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)		2 203
3	German (de) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		667
4	Russian (ru) Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли		649
5	Spanish (es) William Cecil		520
6	French (fr) William Cecil (1er baron Burghley)		280
7	Italian (it) William Cecil, I barone Burghley		252
8	Chinese (zh) 第一代伯利男爵威廉·塞西尔		112
9	Portuguese (pt) William Cecil, 1.º Barão Burghley		97
10	Polish (pl) William Cecil		83

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		322
2	German (de) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		76
3	French (fr) William Cecil (1er baron Burghley)		63
4	Italian (it) William Cecil, I barone Burghley		46
5	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)		44
6	Dutch (nl) William Cecil (1520-1598)		32
7	Russian (ru) Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли		32
8	Spanish (es) William Cecil		20
9	Latin (la) Gulielmus Cecil		18
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם ססיל		16

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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 "William Cecil" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли		2
2	Arabic (ar) وليام سيسيل (بارون بورغلي الأول)		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Сесил		0
4	Czech (cs) William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley		0
5	Danish (da) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		0
6	German (de) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		0
7	Greek (el) Γουλιέλμος Σέσιλ, 1ος βαρόνος Μπέργκλεϋ		0
8	English (en) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		0
9	Esperanto (eo) William Cecil, Lordo Burghley		0
10	Spanish (es) William Cecil		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 "William Cecil" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley		1 075
2	Russian (ru) Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли		266
3	Polish (pl) William Cecil		188
4	German (de) William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley		171
5	French (fr) William Cecil (1er baron Burghley)		129
6	Italian (it) William Cecil, I barone Burghley		128
7	Spanish (es) William Cecil		110
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)		97
9	Portuguese (pt) William Cecil, 1.º Barão Burghley		58
10	Swedish (sv) William Cecil, 1:e baron Burghley		56

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وليام سيسيل (بارون بورغلي الأول)
bg	Bulgarian Уилям Сесил
cs	Czech William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley
da	Danish William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley
de	German William Cecil, 1. Baron Burghley
el	Greek Γουλιέλμος Σέσιλ, 1ος βαρόνος Μπέργκλεϋ
en	English William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
eo	Esperanto William Cecil, Lordo Burghley
es	Spanish William Cecil
et	Estonian William Cecil
fi	Finnish William Cecil
fr	French William Cecil (1er baron Burghley)
he	Hebrew ויליאם ססיל
id	Indonesian William Cecil, Baron Burghley Pertama
it	Italian William Cecil, I barone Burghley
ja	Japanese ウィリアム・セシル (初代バーリー男爵)
la	Latin Gulielmus Cecil
nl	Dutch William Cecil (1520-1598)
no	Norwegian William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley
pl	Polish William Cecil
pt	Portuguese William Cecil, 1.º Barão Burghley
ro	Romanian William Cecil, I Baron Burghley
ru	Russian Сесил, Уильям, 1-й барон Бёрли
sv	Swedish William Cecil, 1:e baron Burghley
th	Thai วิลเลียม เซซิล บารอนเบิร์กลีย์
uk	Ukrainian Вільям Сесіл
zh	Chinese 第一代伯利男爵威廉·塞西尔

Best Rank

Estonian: #17713 12.2020

Global: #25852 10.2017

Best Rank

Estonian: #92 05.2003

Global: #7400 05.2002

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