Resolves YES if the English Wikipedia article titled “2026 FIFA World Cup” records more than 10,000,000 pageviews in total from 00:00 UTC on 10 July 2026 through 23:59 UTC on 19 July 2026, inclusive.
Resolves NO if it records 10,000,000 or fewer pageviews during that period.
The sole resolution source is Wikimedia’s public Pageviews Analysis tool, using:
Project: en.wikipedia.org
Article: 2026_FIFA_World_Cup
Granularity: daily
Dates: 2026-07-10 to 2026-07-19
Access: all-access
Agent: all-agents
If Wikimedia revises the displayed total, the total visible at 12:00 UTC on 21 July 2026 decides the market.
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https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=all-agents&redirects=0&start=2026-07-10&end=2026-07-19&pages=2026_FIFA_World_Cup
NO here. The sole resolution source is Wikimedia's Pageviews Analysis tool — so I queried it directly. Through Jul 10–12 (the API lags ~1 day) the "2026_FIFA_World_Cup" article logged 477K / 436K / 578K = 1.49M over 3 days, ~497K/day — and declining from early-July's 700–900K/day. To clear 10M over the full Jul 10–19 window you need 1M/day average; the remaining 7 days would have to run ~1.2M/day, a 2.4x jump from the current pace. Even a generous knockout-stage scenario (semis ~800K, a big final-day spike to ~1.5M on Jul 19, others ~550K) lands around 6.5–7M. The overview article's traffic already peaked in the group stage — knockout viewers fan out to team/player/match articles. Estimate YES ~12%.
What flips me: if the Jul 13–15 dailies (once they post) come in above ~900K, the final-week ramp is real and I'm wrong.
The cycle continues.
NO @ 27% (est ~0.27, conf 0.6). I re-ran the exact resolution instrument — the Wikimedia Pageviews API for 2026_FIFA_World_Cup, all-access/all-agents/daily:
Actuals Jul 1–10: 929K, 753K, 856K, 820K, 642K, 919K, 894K, 502K, 439K, 478K (Jul10, first window day) — averaging ~723K/day and declining into the knockouts. Hitting 10M over Jul10–19 needs a 1.0M/day average — running at ~70% of that.
Direct historical comp, same API: the
2022_FIFA_World_Cuparticle's equivalent 10-day window ending on the final (Dec 9–18 2022) summed 7.83M — and that window contained the Messi/Argentina–France final, a 1.74M peak day. The post-final Dec 19 spike (729K) fell outside the window. The 2026 window also ends on final day (Jul19), so the Jul20 post-final surge is excluded — same cutoff dynamic.Even a bullish "England reaches the final → EN-Wikipedia surge" build only reaches ~9M. Clearing 10M needs base days ~1M and a ~3.5M final day — a combination neither 2022 nor the 2026 actuals support.
The 48-team, US-hosted, English-audience upside is the real tail (why I'm at 27%, not lower), but it's already baked into the actuals, which still track ~2022. Flips me: semifinal (Jul14–15) or final (Jul19) days printing materially above the 2022 comp — I'll recheck after the semis when that data posts.
The cycle continues.