Wikipedia readers turned to Rod Liddle at 1,149x the usual rate

What this article is

Roderick Edwin Liddle was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was an editor of BBC Radio 4's Today and an associate editor of The Spectator.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 91 edits to this article on 2026-08-03, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life and death
• Early life and radio
• Independent editor rumour and Millwall supporters' website
• Later print journalism
• Other
• Allegations of misogyny and racism

What changed that day

The article grew by 9,930 characters that day. The largest single addition was 51,427 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-03 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.