Martin O'Neill saw 67x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-05-16, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Manager
• Return to Celtic
• Managerial statistics

What changed that day

The article grew by 852 characters that day. The largest single addition was 511 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-16 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

3 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.

• List of Scottish football champions
• Heart of Midlothian F.C. Association football club in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Scottish Premiership Scottish association football league

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.