Dricus du Plessis is drawing 48x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Dricus du Plessis, also known by his initials DDP, is a South African professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Middleweight Champion. He is the first South African to win a UFC championship. As of 19 August 2025, he is #2 in the Meta UFC middleweight rankings. Outside of the UFC, du Plessis is also the former Welterweight and Middleweight Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC) Champion, and the former Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki (KSW) Welterweight Champion.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-07-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Mixed martial arts
• Post championship

What changed that day

The article grew by 823 characters that day. The largest single addition was 416 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-19 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.