Emiliano Martínez saw 33x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Damián Emiliano Martínez Romero, also known as Dibu Martínez, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Argentina national team. Known as a specialist in saving penalty kicks, he is often regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 15 edits to this article on 2026-07-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International career
• Penalty performances

What changed that day

The article grew by 546 characters that day. The largest single addition was 454 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-19 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.