Nick Aldis saw 78x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Nicholas Harry Aldis is an English professional wrestler and executive. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as the General Manager of SmackDown, a producer, and an on-call in-ring competitor. A four-time world champion, he previously held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship once and the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship twice, holding the NWA title for over 1,000 combined days.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 16 edits to this article on 2026-08-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• WWE (2023–present)

What changed that day

The article grew by 74 characters that day. The largest single addition was 219 characters to WWE (2023–present). See everything that changed on 2026-08-02 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.