Paraguay national football team saw 45x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Paraguay national football team, nicknamed La Albirroja, represents Paraguay in men's international football competitions, and are controlled by the Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol. Paraguay is a member of CONMEBOL. The Albirroja has qualified for nine FIFA World Cup competitions, with their best performance coming in 2010 when they reached the quarter-finals. A regular participant at the Copa América, Paraguay have been crowned champions of the competition on two occasions. Paraguay's highest FIFA World Ranking was 8th in March 2001 and their lowest was 103rd in May 1995. Paraguay was awarded second place with Best Move of the Year in 1996 for their rise in the FIFA World Ranking.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 12 edits to this article on 2026-06-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2011–present
• Head-to-head record
• 2026
• FIFA World Cup
• Player records

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,718 characters that day. The largest single addition was 700 characters to 2011–present. See everything that changed on 2026-06-29 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.

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.