Wikipedia readers turned to Neuromancer at 30x the usual rate

What this article is

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in the near future, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, after its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 1 edit to this article on 2026-07-26, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Television

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.