2026 PDC World Cup of Darts is drawing 63x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

The 2026 PDC World Cup of Darts was a professional darts tournament that took place from 11 to 14 June 2026 at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the 16th edition of the PDC World Cup of Darts to be staged by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). The total prize fund was £500,000, of which the winning team shared £100,000.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 50 edits to this article on 2026-06-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Group stage
• Group D
• Group K
• Group H
• Group L
• Knockout stage

What changed that day

The article grew by 9,889 characters that day. The largest single addition was 3,399 characters to Summary. See everything that changed on 2026-06-12 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

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.