Wikipedia readers turned to Jenna Dewan at 22x the usual rate

What this article is

Jenna Lee Dewan is an American actress and dancer. She started her career as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, and later worked with artists including Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Missy Elliott. She is known for her role as Nora Clark in the 2006 film Step Up. She has also starred on the short-lived NBC series The Playboy Club (2011) and had a recurring role on the FX series American Horror Story: Asylum (2012). She portrayed Freya Beauchamp on the Lifetime series Witches of East End (2013–14), Lucy Lane in The CW series Supergirl (2015–16) and Superman & Lois (2022–23), and Joanna in Soundtrack (2019) on Netflix. Dewan has hosted the reality television shows World of Dance (2017–18) and Flirty Dancing (2019) and served as a judge on Come Dance with Me (2022). Since 2021, she has appeared in a supporting role as Bailey Nune on ABC's The Rookie.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-09-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 33andOut Productions
• Personal life

What changed that day

The article lost 233 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 36 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-17 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.