Benoît Saint Denis is drawing 69x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Benoît Saint Denis, is a French professional mixed martial artist and former French Army Special Forces soldier who currently competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of July 11, 2026, he is #8 in the Meta UFC lightweight rankings.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 11 edits to this article on 2026-07-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Mixed martial arts record
• 2026
• Mixed martial arts

What changed that day

The article grew by 482 characters that day. The largest single addition was 435 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-07-12 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.