Wikipedia readers turned to Moana (2026 film) at 14x the usual rate

What this article is

Moana is a 2026 American musical adventure film and a live-action adaptation of Disney Animation's 2016 film. As the overall third installment and the first live-action film in the Moana franchise, the film was directed by Thomas Kail and written by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller. It was produced by Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Dany Garcia, Beau Flynn, and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda. The film stars Johnson, Rena Owen, John Tui, Frankie Adams, Jemaine Clement and Catherine Laga'aia in her film debut as the title character.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 26 edits to this article on 2026-07-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Critical response
• Box office
• Cast
• Release

What changed that day

The article grew by 2,315 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,292 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-12 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.