Álex Baena is drawing 60x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Alejandro "Álex" Baena Rodríguez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-07-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Honours

What changed that day

The article grew by 404 characters that day. The largest single addition was 380 characters to Honours. See everything that changed on 2026-07-19 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.