Wikipedia readers turned to Amou Haji at 172x the usual rate

What this article is

Amou Haji, also known as the "World's Dirtiest Man", was an Iranian hermit man who was known for not bathing for more than 60 years.

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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.