Rajat Patidar is drawing 45x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Rajat Manohar Patidar is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed top order batter and an off-spin bowler. He made his international debut against South Africa in December 2023. Patidar plays for Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and captains the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League. Under Rajat Patidar's captaincy, RCB won back to back IPL titles in 2025 and 2026.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 16 edits to this article on 2026-05-31, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Franchise career

What changed that day

The article grew by 185 characters that day. The largest single addition was 260 characters to Franchise career. See everything that changed on 2026-05-31 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.