Wikipedia readers turned to Chris Wood (footballer, born 1991) at 52x the usual rate

What this article is

Christopher Grant Wood is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and captains the New Zealand national team. Widely regarded as the greatest ever footballer to come out of New Zealand, Wood is one of just six New Zealanders to have played in the Premier League.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-06-16, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International

What changed that day

The article grew by 36 characters that day. The largest single addition was 35 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-16 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.