Coyote vs. Acme saw 17x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Coyote vs. Acme is a 2026 American comedy film directed by Dave Green and written by Samy Burch, who developed the story with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. Loosely based on the 1990 The New Yorker magazine article "Coyote v. Acme" by Ian Frazier, it follows Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products. The live-action animated film stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, Tone Bell, Luis Guzmán, Martha Kelly, P. J. Byrne, Kenneth Choi, and John Cena, with Eric Bauza leading the voice cast.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 64 edits to this article on 2026-08-30, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Plot
• Box office
• Initial cancellation and reversal
• Cast
• Critical response
• Themes and analysis

What changed that day

The article grew by 137 characters that day. The largest single addition was 555 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-30 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.