Ashura is drawing 49x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Ashura, also more formally as the Day of Ashura, is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the tenth of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.

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What changed that day

The article grew by 9 characters that day. The largest single addition was 9 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-26 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.