Eid al-Adha saw 62x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Eid al-Adha is the second of the two main festivals in Islam, alongside Eid al-Fitr. It falls on the 10th of Dhu'l-Hijja, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar. Celebrations and observances are generally carried forward to the three following days, known as the Tashreeq days.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-05-27, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Etymology

What changed that day

The article grew by 35 characters that day. The largest single addition was 62 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-27 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.

• Eid Mubarak Muslim annual festival greeting (Eid)

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.