Mayday (2026 film) saw 31x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Mayday is a 2026 American action comedy film written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and produced by Apple Original Films, Skydance Media, and Maximum Effort. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova, and David Morse.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 11 edits to this article on 2026-09-06, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Cast
• Plot
• Premise
• Reception

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,832 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,624 characters to Premise. 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.