Delhi University Students Union saw 271x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) is the world’s largest student body, with over 700,000 students spread over 91 affiliated colleges and 16 faculties. It was established in 1949, and in 1954 the first DUSU elections were held. It is the representative body of the students from member colleges and university faculties and teaching departments. The students of member colleges and university faculties & teaching departments are the members of the union. The Vice–Chancellor of the University of Delhi is the patron of the union. The official year and term of the union is from 16th of August of every year to the 15th of August of the following year.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 48 edits to this article on 2026-09-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• List of DUSU officeholders

What changed that day

The article grew by 709 characters that day. The largest single addition was 259 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-19 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.