Melilla saw 77x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Melilla is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 12.3 km2 (4.7 sq mi).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-07-31, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Administrative subdivisions

What changed that day

The article grew by 3 characters that day. The largest single addition was 30 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-31 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.