2026-06-08 · This surge ran for 10 days and has since subsided.
Ragtime (musical) is drawing 33x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Ragtime (musical) drew 50,061 views on 2026-06-08, 33x more than the usual 1,510 a day over the previous 60 days.
Ragtime (musical)
Musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 50,061 |
| 2026-06-07 | 4,600 |
| 2026-06-06 | 1,683 |
| 2026-06-05 | 1,700 |
| 2026-06-04 | 1,670 |
| 2026-06-03 | 1,526 |
| 2026-06-02 | 1,504 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1,560 |
| 2026-05-31 | 1,506 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1,445 |
| 2026-05-29 | 1,392 |
| 2026-05-28 | 1,712 |
| 2026-05-27 | 1,522 |
| 2026-05-26 | 1,374 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1,581 |
| 2026-05-24 | 1,834 |
| 2026-05-23 | 1,944 |
| 2026-05-22 | 1,554 |
| 2026-05-21 | 1,551 |
| 2026-05-20 | 1,638 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1,514 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1,767 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1,611 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1,847 |
| 2026-05-15 | 1,783 |
| 2026-05-14 | 1,813 |
| 2026-05-13 | 2,114 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1,703 |
| 2026-05-11 | 2,057 |
| 2026-05-10 | 2,363 |
| 2026-05-09 | 2,480 |
| 2026-05-08 | 2,919 |
| 2026-05-07 | 3,679 |
| 2026-05-06 | 3,607 |
| 2026-05-05 | 2,600 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1,095 |
| 2026-05-03 | 1,360 |
| 2026-05-02 | 1,164 |
| 2026-05-01 | 1,185 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1,471 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1,378 |
| 2026-04-28 | 982 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1,079 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1,237 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1,142 |
What this article is
Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 25 edits to this article on 2026-06-08, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- 2025 Broadway revival
- Regional and international productions
- 2025 Broadway
- Act one
- Adaptation
What changed that day
The article grew by 470 characters that day. The largest single addition was 194 characters to 2025 Broadway revival. See everything that changed on 2026-06-08 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.