Wikipedia readers turned to Amanda Knox at 13x the usual rate

What this article is

Amanda Marie Knox is an American author and stand-up comedian. She came to international prominence during her trial for the November 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. The trial and her conviction were highly publicized in 2009 as was her acquittal two years later.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-08-07, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Interviews, arrest, and arraignment
• Verdict and controversy

What changed that day

The article lost 2,879 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 98 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-07 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.