Markéta Irglová saw 618x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Markéta Irglová is a Czech and Icelandic singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She starred in the 2007 film Once, which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly", with co-writer and co-star Glen Hansard. In 2005, she and Hansard formed the duo the Swell Season, which released three studio albums. She has also published four solo records.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-07-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life

What changed that day

The article lost 228 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 18 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-29 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.

Rose at the same time

2 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Glen Hansard Irish musician (1970–2026)
• Once (film) 2007 film by John Carney

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.