Wikipedia readers turned to Mike Evans (wide receiver) at 49x the usual rate

What this article is

Michael Lynn Evans Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, earning consensus All-American honors after recording a school record of 1,394 receiving yards on 69 receptions in 2013. Evans was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round with the seventh overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-09-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• College

What changed that day

The article grew by 156 characters that day. The largest single addition was 156 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-11 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.