Wikipedia readers turned to SC Freiburg at 73x the usual rate

What this article is

Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg, is a German professional football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bundesliga in 2016.

Summary text from the Wikipedia article "SC Freiburg", available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full article.

Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-05-20, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Honours
• Matches
• Post-Streich years
• UEFA competitions
• Youth

What changed that day

The article grew by 940 characters that day. The largest single addition was 550 characters to Youth. See everything that changed on 2026-05-20 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.