Jimmy Swaggart is drawing 63x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Jimmy Lee Swaggart was an American Pentecostal televangelist, pastor, media mogul, author and gospel music artist.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 1 edit to this article on 2026-05-21, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Music

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.