Wikipedia readers turned to Anne Hathaway at 19x the usual rate

What this article is

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her films have grossed over $6.8 billion worldwide. She was among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-06-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life
• Public image

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,306 characters that day. The largest single addition was 925 characters to Personal life. See everything that changed on 2026-06-19 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.