Cape Verde saw 106x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa. It consists of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa, after which they are named. Cape Verde forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Islands. It is also the largest country off-continental Africa.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 45 edits to this article on 2026-07-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Sports
• Culture
• Cinema
• Climate
• Cuisine
• Dance

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,014 characters that day. The largest single addition was 343 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-04 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.