Qatar national football team saw 83x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Qatar national football team, nicknamed "The Maroons", represents Qatar in international football, and is controlled by the Qatar Football Association, which is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football’s governing body FIFA. They play their home games at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 11 edits to this article on 2026-06-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• Current squad
• FIFA World Cup

What changed that day

The article grew by 36 characters that day. The largest single addition was 75 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-13 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.