Granit Xhaka is drawing 29x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Granit Xhaka is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for and captains both Premier League club Sunderland and the Switzerland national team.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 10 edits to this article on 2026-06-18, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2011–present: Senior tournaments and captaincy

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,229 characters that day. The largest single addition was 974 characters to 2011–present: Senior tournaments and captaincy. See everything that changed on 2026-06-18 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.