Hokum (film) is drawing 20x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Hokum is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Damian McCarthy. The film stars Adam Scott as an author who travels to a hotel in Ireland, unaware it may be haunted. Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Michael Patric, Will O'Connell, Brendan Conroy, and Austin Amelio appear in supporting roles.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 23 edits to this article on 2026-05-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Plot
• Cast
• Box office
• Production

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,746 characters that day. The largest single addition was 780 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-02 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.