Katie Dippold saw 34x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Katie Dippold is an American screenwriter. She was a writer on the NBC series Parks and Recreation and wrote the 2013 film The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. She is the creator and showrunner of Widow's Bay (2026), for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-09-15, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Television
• Awards and nominations

What changed that day

The article grew by 34 characters that day. The largest single addition was 49 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-15 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.