Bev Craig is drawing 117x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Beverley Anne Craig is a British Labour Co-op politician who is the Mayor of Greater Manchester. She was elected on 30 July 2026, defeating Reform UK candidate Sian Astley in the final round of the 2026 Greater Manchester mayoral by-election. She has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since August 2026. As mayor, Craig is an ex officio member, and chair, of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 12 edits to this article on 2026-08-01, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026 Greater Manchester mayoral by-election
• Manchester City Council

What changed that day

The article grew by 285 characters that day. The largest single addition was 362 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-01 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.

Rose at the same time

1 other article that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• 2026 Greater Manchester mayoral by-election Election in Britain

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.