2026-06-11 · This surge ran for 30 days and has since subsided.
Wikipedia readers turned to 2010 FIFA World Cup at 16x the usual rate
2010 FIFA World Cup drew 78,324 views on 2026-06-11, 16x more than the usual 4,820 a day over the previous 60 days.
2010 FIFA World Cup
Association football tournament in South Africa
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 78,324 |
| 2026-06-10 | 33,202 |
| 2026-06-09 | 26,419 |
| 2026-06-08 | 23,538 |
| 2026-06-07 | 19,734 |
| 2026-06-06 | 18,931 |
| 2026-06-05 | 17,228 |
| 2026-06-04 | 16,611 |
| 2026-06-03 | 15,483 |
| 2026-06-02 | 13,135 |
| 2026-06-01 | 11,802 |
| 2026-05-31 | 9,294 |
| 2026-05-30 | 9,008 |
| 2026-05-29 | 9,064 |
| 2026-05-28 | 9,397 |
| 2026-05-27 | 8,858 |
| 2026-05-26 | 8,499 |
| 2026-05-25 | 7,855 |
| 2026-05-24 | 7,185 |
| 2026-05-23 | 7,287 |
| 2026-05-22 | 7,698 |
| 2026-05-21 | 7,492 |
| 2026-05-20 | 7,475 |
| 2026-05-19 | 8,073 |
| 2026-05-18 | 7,120 |
| 2026-05-17 | 6,342 |
| 2026-05-16 | 6,218 |
| 2026-05-15 | 6,135 |
| 2026-05-14 | 7,067 |
| 2026-05-13 | 5,770 |
| 2026-05-12 | 4,879 |
| 2026-05-11 | 4,762 |
| 2026-05-10 | 4,346 |
| 2026-05-09 | 4,265 |
| 2026-05-08 | 4,476 |
| 2026-05-07 | 4,196 |
| 2026-05-06 | 4,083 |
| 2026-05-05 | 3,704 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3,709 |
| 2026-05-03 | 3,843 |
| 2026-05-02 | 3,746 |
| 2026-05-01 | 3,818 |
| 2026-04-30 | 3,826 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,046 |
| 2026-04-28 | 3,974 |
What this article is
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations. In 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 1 edit to this article on 2026-06-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Venues
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.