Wikipedia readers turned to Levi's Stadium at 89x the usual rate

What this article is

Levi's Stadium is an outdoor stadium near the West Coast of the United States, located in Santa Clara, California, just west of San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has served as the home venue for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) since 2014. Located approximately forty miles (65 km) south of San Francisco, it is named after Levi Strauss & Co., which purchased naming rights in 2013.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-06-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026 FIFA World Cup

What changed that day

The article grew by 104 characters that day. The largest single addition was 59 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-13 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.