Doctor Doom is drawing 25x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Doctor Doom is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 (1962) and has endured as the archenemy of the Fantastic Four.

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What changed that day

The article grew by 3,660 characters that day. The largest single addition was 3,634 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-16 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.

Rose at the same time

1 other article that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

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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.