Wikipedia readers turned to David Jolly at 60x the usual rate

What this article is

David Wilson Jolly is an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district from 2014 to 2017 as a Republican. After leaving office, Jolly became a prominent Republican critic of President Donald Trump and a political pundit. In September 2018, Jolly left the Republican Party.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-08-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026 gubernatorial campaign

What changed that day

The largest single addition was 84 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-19 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.