Lane Kiffin saw 90x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Lane Monte Kiffin is an American football coach who is the head coach for the LSU Tigers. He previously served as the head coach for the Oakland Raiders from 2007 to 2009, Tennessee Volunteers in 2009, USC Trojans from 2010 to 2013, Florida Atlantic Owls from 2017 to 2019, and Ole Miss Rebels from 2020 to 2025.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-09-06, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• College

What changed that day

The article lost 2 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 16 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-06 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.