Digger (2026 film) is drawing 40x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Digger is an upcoming satirical black comedy film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who co-wrote the film with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone, from a story by Iñárritu and Berman. It is a co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, and Mexico. The film stars Tom Cruise as the titular character alongside Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 16 edits to this article on 2026-07-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Cast
• Marketing

What changed that day

The article grew by 183 characters that day. The largest single addition was 109 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-13 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.