Marjane Satrapi is drawing 724x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Marjane Satrapi was an Iranian and French comic book author, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel Persepolis and its film adaptation; the graphic novel Chicken with Plums; Woman, Life, Freedom; and the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 125 edits to this article on 2026-06-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life and death
• Political activism
• Films
• Filmography
• Early life
• Awards

What changed that day

The article grew by 14,531 characters that day. The largest single addition was 4,168 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-04 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.