Wikipedia readers turned to Algeria national football team at 75x the usual rate

What this article is

The Algeria national football team represents Algeria in men's international football, and is governed by the Algerian Football Federation. The team plays its home matches at Nelson Mandela Stadium in Algiers and Miloud Hadefi Stadium in Oran. Algeria joined FIFA on 1 January 1964, a year and a half after gaining independence.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 13 edits to this article on 2026-06-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• Current squad
• All-time record against FIFA recognized nations
• FIFA World Cup

What changed that day

The article grew by 68 characters that day. The largest single addition was 48 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-17 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.