Miroslav Klose is drawing 66x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Miroslav Josef Klose is a professional football manager and former player who is head coach of 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. Born in Poland, Klose played as a striker for the Germany national team.

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What changed that day

The article lost 860 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 377 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-17 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.