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Francesca Hong is drawing 8.4x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

Francesca Hong drew 19,782 views on 2026-08-08, 8.4x more than the usual 2,356 a day over the previous 60 days.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Francesca Hong
DateViews
2026-08-0819,782
2026-08-0724,933
2026-08-0633,841
2026-08-0540,052
2026-08-0451,857
2026-08-0319,047
2026-08-0217,911
2026-08-0128,244
2026-07-3135,397
2026-07-3023,562
2026-07-2916,923
2026-07-2811,022
2026-07-274,570
2026-07-263,796
2026-07-253,594
2026-07-245,985
2026-07-236,209
2026-07-225,309
2026-07-214,252
2026-07-204,254
2026-07-196,223
2026-07-187,954
2026-07-174,819
2026-07-161,926
2026-07-151,533
2026-07-142,105
2026-07-131,310
2026-07-121,008
2026-07-111,092
2026-07-101,718
2026-07-093,126
2026-07-082,719
2026-07-071,991
2026-07-063,745
2026-07-051,856
2026-07-042,270
2026-07-032,880
2026-07-022,293
2026-07-013,720
2026-06-302,778
2026-06-292,812
2026-06-281,022
2026-06-271,323
2026-06-261,674
2026-06-252,420
Views that day
19,782
Versus normal
8.4x
Typical day
2,356

What this article is

Francesca Hong is an American politician, former chef, and business owner who has represented Wisconsin's 76th Assembly district in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. Hong's district includes the downtown and east side of the state capital, Madison, as well as Maple Bluff. Hong is a candidate in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin in the 2026 election and has been endorsed by Wisconsin-based chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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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.

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