Scotland national football team saw 37x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in men's international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. They compete in three major professional tournaments: the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Nations League, and the UEFA European Championship. Scotland, as a country of the United Kingdom, are not a member of the International Olympic Committee, and therefore the national team does not compete in the Olympic Games. The majority of Scotland's home matches are played at the national stadium, Hampden Park.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 21 edits to this article on 2026-06-14, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• Top goalscorers
• Coaching staff
• FIFA World Cup
• Current squad
• Player records

What changed that day

The article grew by 3,533 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,043 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-14 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.