Wikipedia readers turned to Nitesh Tiwari at 75x the usual rate

What this article is

Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Hindi films. He debuted as a co-writer and co-director in Chillar Party (2011) which won him two National Film Awards, including Best Children's Film and Best Screenplay. He made his solo directorial debut with the supernatural political drama Bhoothnath Returns (2014).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-07-30, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Filmography

What changed that day

The article lost 13 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-07-30 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.