Perez Hilton is drawing 1,079x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., known professionally as Perez Hilton, is an American blogger, columnist, and media personality. His blog is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities, and for posting tabloid photos over which he has added his own captions or "doodles". The blog has received controversy for its attitude, its former practice of outing alleged closeted celebrities, and its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 43 edits to this article on 2026-08-05, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life
• Blogging career
• Early life
• Lady Gaga
• Legal issues and controversies
• Miss USA 2009

What changed that day

The article grew by 3,425 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,600 characters to Personal life. See everything that changed on 2026-08-05 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.