Judy Blume is drawing 164x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Judith Marcia Blume is an American writer of children's, young adult, and adult fiction. She began writing in 1959 and has published more than 26 novels. Among her best-known works are Superfudge (1980), Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), Blubber (1974) and Double Fudge (2002). Blume's books have significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-05-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Adult life
• Career

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,510 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,566 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-19 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.