Jason Collins is drawing 520x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Jason Paul Collins was an American professional basketball player who was a center for 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal, earning third-team All-American honors in 2001. Collins was selected by the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft with the 18th overall pick. He went on to play for the New Jersey Nets, Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, and Brooklyn Nets.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 33 edits to this article on 2026-05-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Illness and death
• Coming out
• College career
• Early life
• Boston Celtics (2012–2013)
• NBA career statistics

What changed that day

The article grew by 4,274 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,559 characters to NBA career statistics. 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.