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Ben Delo drew 104,866 Wikipedia views in a day

Ben Delo drew 104,866 views on 2026-09-12, against a typical 59 a day. Normal traffic here is low enough that the multiple (1,777x) is indicative rather than precise — the view count is the solid figure here.

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Ben Delo

British entrepreneur and programmer

104,866
views in a day, 1,777x more than normal, on a baseline too small to state precisely
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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Ben Delo
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2026-09-12104,866
2026-09-1113,255
2026-09-1095
2026-09-0974
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2026-09-07106
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What this article is

Ben Delo is a British businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive of BitMEX.

Summary text from the Wikipedia article "Ben Delo", available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full article.

Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 47 edits to this article on 2026-09-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

  • Political donations
  • Philanthropy

What changed that day

The article lost 806 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 17,186 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-12 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.

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