Sid Wilson saw 98x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Sidney George Wilson is an American DJ and keyboardist and turntablist. He is best known for being the former DJ and keyboardist for the heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he was designated #0, until his firing from the band on August 14, 2026.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 29 edits to this article on 2026-08-01, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Biography

What changed that day

The article grew by 2 characters that day. The largest single addition was 283 characters to Biography. See everything that changed on 2026-08-01 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

1 other article 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.

• Slipknot (band) American heavy metal band

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.