Judith Chalmers is drawing 666x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Judith Rosemary Locke Chalmers was a British television and radio presenter. She began broadcasting for the BBC as a teenager and went on to present a wide range of programmes, including Family Favourites, Woman's Hour, Come Dancing and ITV's daytime magazine shows. Chalmers was best known for presenting the ITV travel series Wish You Were Here...? from 1974 to 2003. Her later work included appearances on programmes such as Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and Celebrity Taste of Italy. She was appointed OBE in 1994.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 56 edits to this article on 2026-05-22, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life and death
• Career
• Personal life

What changed that day

The article grew by 8,508 characters that day. The largest single addition was 5,079 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-22 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.