Hull City A.F.C. saw 60x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The club will compete in the Premier League in the 2026–27 season following promotion via the playoffs. They play their home games at the MKM Stadium, after moving from Boothferry Park in 2002. The club's traditional home colours are black and amber, often featuring in a striped design on the shirt, hence their nickname, the Tigers. Hull also contest the Humber derby with both Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-05-23, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Honours

What changed that day

The article lost 233 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 99 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-23 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.