Jon-Erik Hexum saw 108x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Jon-Erik Hexum was an American actor and model, known for his lead roles in the TV series Voyagers! and Cover Up, and his supporting role as Pat Trammell in the biopic The Bear. He died from a self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head in a game of Russian roulette while on the set of Cover Up.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-07-23, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Filmography

What changed that day

The article lost 65 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 10 characters to Filmography. See everything that changed on 2026-07-23 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.