Wikipedia readers turned to Edin Džeko at 28x the usual rate

What this article is

Edin Džeko is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and captains the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Nicknamed the "Bosnian Diamond" or simply the "Diamond", he is widely regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation. Having scored over 400 senior career goals for club and country, Džeko is the all-time top goalscorer and most capped player of the Bosnian national team.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-07-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International

What changed that day

The article lost 16 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-07-02 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.