Wikipedia readers turned to AT&T Stadium at 43x the usual rate

What this article is

AT&T Stadium is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States. It serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) and opened in 2009. It is also the home of the Cotton Bowl Classic and the Big 12 Championship Game, and hosted the Southwest Classic until 2024. The stadium was one of 11 US venues that hosted matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The facility, owned by the City of Arlington, has also been used for a variety of other activities, such as concerts, basketball games, soccer, college and high-school football contests, rodeos, motocross, Spartan Races and professional wrestling. It replaced the partially covered Texas Stadium, which served as the Cowboys' home from 1971 through the 2008 season.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-06-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
• Basketball

What changed that day

The article grew by 1 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1 characters to Basketball. 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.