Ismail Elfath saw 189x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Ismail Elfath is a soccer referee. Born in Morocco, he belongs to the Professional Referee Organization, representing the United States internationally. Elfath has been a referee in Major League Soccer since 2012 and a FIFA listed referee since 2016. He has also been selected to two FIFA World Cups, and was the fourth official for the 2022 World Cup final.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 29 edits to this article on 2026-07-15, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar

What changed that day

The article grew by 333 characters that day. The largest single addition was 260 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-15 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.