Wikipedia readers turned to Alexander Sørloth at 57x the usual rate

What this article is

Alexander Sørloth is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Norway national team.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 57 edits to this article on 2026-07-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International career
• Rosenborg

What changed that day

The article grew by 1 characters that day. The largest single addition was 314 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-12 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.