Sam Neill is drawing 744x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill was a New Zealand actor. Known as a leading man in numerous roles in film and television, he first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), followed by a leading role in My Brilliant Career (1979).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 203 edits to this article on 2026-07-13, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life
• Early life
• International career
• Personal life and death
• Health and death
• Career

What changed that day

The article lost 8,575 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 8,149 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-13 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.

Rose at the same time

2 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.

• Sam Neill filmography
• Jurassic Park 1993 film by Steven Spielberg

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.