2026-05-05 · This surge ran for 6 days and has since subsided.
Democracy Manifest is drawing 34x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Democracy Manifest drew 61,210 views on 2026-05-05, 34x more than the usual 1,786 a day over the previous 60 days.
Democracy Manifest
1991 Australian viral video
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 61,210 |
| 2026-05-04 | 2,015 |
| 2026-05-03 | 1,553 |
| 2026-05-02 | 1,448 |
| 2026-05-01 | 1,569 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1,789 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1,927 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1,965 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2,103 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1,816 |
| 2026-04-25 | 2,207 |
| 2026-04-24 | 2,389 |
| 2026-04-23 | 2,276 |
| 2026-04-22 | 2,201 |
| 2026-04-21 | 2,564 |
| 2026-04-20 | 1,748 |
| 2026-04-19 | 1,645 |
| 2026-04-18 | 2,162 |
| 2026-04-17 | 2,619 |
| 2026-04-16 | 2,306 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1,674 |
| 2026-04-14 | 1,747 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1,729 |
| 2026-04-12 | 1,838 |
| 2026-04-11 | 2,076 |
| 2026-04-10 | 2,249 |
| 2026-04-09 | 2,469 |
| 2026-04-08 | 2,651 |
| 2026-04-07 | 2,574 |
| 2026-04-06 | 3,499 |
| 2026-04-05 | 3,515 |
| 2026-04-04 | 4,271 |
| 2026-04-03 | 5,462 |
| 2026-04-02 | 7,285 |
| 2026-04-01 | 14,200 |
| 2026-03-31 | 29,691 |
| 2026-03-30 | 6,693 |
| 2026-03-29 | 1,386 |
| 2026-03-28 | 1,271 |
| 2026-03-27 | 1,488 |
| 2026-03-26 | 1,449 |
| 2026-03-25 | 1,315 |
| 2026-03-24 | 1,356 |
| 2026-03-23 | 1,257 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1,488 |
What this article is
"Democracy Manifest" is an Australian viral video and internet meme. It was recorded in 1991 for a news segment by the reporter Chris Reason and uploaded to the Internet in 2009. YouTube has several postings of the video, with more than a million views each.
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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.