Mark Nawaqanitawase is drawing 288x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Mark Ermanno Dukutoko Nawaqanitawase, nicknamed "Marky Mark", is an Australian professional premiership winning and state of origin winning rugby union footballer who plays as a winger or centre for the Saitama Wild Knights

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-10-05, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026

What changed that day

The article grew by 196 characters that day. The largest single addition was 150 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-10-05 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.