Al Green (politician) is drawing 122x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Alexander N. Green is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 9th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Green served as the justice of the peace of Harris County, Texas from 1977 to 2004. Green is a member of the United States House Committee on Financial Services.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 13 edits to this article on 2026-05-27, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026 Democratic primary

What changed that day

The article grew by 579 characters that day. The largest single addition was 402 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-27 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.