Pittman Center, Tennessee saw 402x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Pittman Center is a town in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 454 at the 2020 census and 502 at the 2010 census. The town is 8 miles (13 km) east of Gatlinburg and borders the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. U.S. Route 321 passes through the town.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 14 edits to this article on 2026-08-26, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Demographics
• The Pittman Community Center
• Education
• History
• Notable people

What changed that day

The article grew by 2,189 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,160 characters to Demographics. See everything that changed on 2026-08-26 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.