Philipe Lins saw 208x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Luiz Philipe Lins Pimentel do Amaral is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who formerly competed in the light heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He won the 2018 Professional Fighters League heavyweight tournament.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Mixed martial arts record
• Most Valuable Promotions

What changed that day

The article grew by 207 characters that day. The largest single addition was 119 characters to Most Valuable Promotions. See everything that changed on 2026-05-17 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.