Ivory Coast national football team is drawing 60x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

The Côte d'Ivoire national football team represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed the Elephants, the team is managed by the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF). The team has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times, in 1992, 2015 and 2023, and has qualified for the FIFA World Cup four times, in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2026.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 10 edits to this article on 2026-06-20, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Most appearances
• 2026
• Current squad
• FIFA World Cup
• Records

What changed that day

The article lost 359 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 91 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-20 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.