Raúl Castro saw 46x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician, general, and revolutionary who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro; he is still considered the de facto leader of the country by some commentators.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 13 edits to this article on 2026-05-20, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Indictment
• Retirement

What changed that day

The article grew by 783 characters that day. The largest single addition was 326 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-20 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.