Wikipedia readers turned to Kaitlan Collins at 54x the usual rate

What this article is

Kaitlan Collins is an American journalist and news anchor at CNN. She is the former co-anchor of CNN This Morning. She has hosted The Source at 9 p.m. since July 10, 2023. She also served as the network's chief White House correspondent from January 2021 until November 2022. Previously, she was the White House correspondent for the website The Daily Caller. She resumed her role as CNN's chief White House correspondent for the second Trump presidency.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-07-28, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• CNN (2017–present)
• Awards

What changed that day

The article grew by 379 characters that day. The largest single addition was 394 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-28 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.