Alan Greenspan saw 313x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Alan Greenspan was an American economist who served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 161 edits to this article on 2026-06-22, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Housing bubble
• Personal life and death
• Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Honors
• Memoir
• 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession

What changed that day

The article grew by 8,435 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,513 characters to Chairman of the Federal Reserve. See everything that changed on 2026-06-22 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.