Donald Gibb saw 677x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Donald Richard Gibb was an American actor, best known for his roles as the hulking, dimwitted fraternity brother Frederick “Ogre” Palowaski in several installments of the Revenge of the Nerds film series, as Kumite fighter Ray Jackson in Bloodsport, and as Leslie "Dr. Death" Krunchner on the HBO sitcom 1st & Ten.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 38 edits to this article on 2026-05-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Death
• Early life
• Career
• Film
• Filmography
• Video games

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,362 characters that day. The largest single addition was 374 characters to Early life. See everything that changed on 2026-05-13 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.