Sagrada Família saw 12x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, or simply Sagrada Família, is a Catholic church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, it is the tallest church in the world. On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a basilica. Parts of the Sagrada Família were declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, under "Works of Antoni Gaudí".

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 9 edits to this article on 2026-06-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Glory Façade
• Incidents

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,925 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,038 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-11 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.