Thomas Hitzlsperger is drawing 195x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a midfielder. He is currently a board member at Serie B club Hellas Verona.

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What changed that day

The article lost 10 characters on balance that day. 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.