Enes Kanter Freedom is drawing 436x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Enes Kanter Freedom is a Turkish and American former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Switzerland to parents from Turkey, he was raised in Turkey and moved to the United States as a teenager. Freedom was selected as the third overall pick of the 2011 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz, and primarily played the center position.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 31 edits to this article on 2026-08-24, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Women's basketball
• Politics and activism
• added relevant career highlight

What changed that day

The article lost 337 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 110 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-24 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.