Alireza Beiranvand is drawing 301x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Alireza Safar Beiranvand is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Iran national team. Also known as "Beiro", and the "Wall of Persia", he represented Iran internationally at the AFC Asian Cup in 2015, 2019 and 2023, and at the FIFA World Cup in 2018, 2022, and 2026.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 12 edits to this article on 2026-06-21, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Early life
• International

What changed that day

The article grew by 4,353 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,569 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-21 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.