Wikipedia readers turned to Robelis Despaigne at 481x the usual rate

What this article is

Robelis Despaigne Sanquet is a Cuban professional mixed martial artist and taekwondo practitioner who is currently signed with Karate Combat, where he is the current Karate Combat Heavyweight Champion. Despaigne competed in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He won the bronze medal on Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics - Men's for 80 kg.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 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

What changed that day

The article grew by 382 characters that day. The largest single addition was 382 characters. 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.