Emam Ashour saw 357x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Emam Ashour Metwally Abdel Ghany is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, winger or second striker for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team. He has also occasionally been deployed as a right-back. Capable of contributing on both halves of the field, Ashour has been described as a "Swiss Army Knife", and "the Egyptian Figo". Despite his talent, Ashour has been criticised for his disciplinary issues and criminal incident in 2024, and has been labelled a "flawed genius".

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 9 edits to this article on 2026-06-15, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International career
• International

What changed that day

The article grew by 287 characters that day. The largest single addition was 113 characters to International career. See everything that changed on 2026-06-15 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.