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Prashant Kishor is drawing 5.2x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

Prashant Kishor drew 3,787 views on 2026-08-08, 5.2x more than the usual 733 a day over the previous 60 days.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Prashant Kishor
DateViews
2026-08-083,787
2026-08-075,411
2026-08-068,012
2026-08-0518,614
2026-08-0474,698
2026-08-03106,316
2026-08-021,235
2026-08-011,161
2026-07-311,399
2026-07-301,995
2026-07-291,288
2026-07-281,168
2026-07-271,008
2026-07-261,007
2026-07-25994
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2026-07-22805
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2026-07-18735
2026-07-17731
2026-07-161,116
2026-07-151,841
2026-07-143,386
2026-07-132,045
2026-07-12959
2026-07-111,396
2026-07-101,596
2026-07-091,012
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2026-07-071,126
2026-07-061,355
2026-07-051,323
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2026-06-30333
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2026-06-25428
Views that day
3,787
Versus normal
5.2x
Typical day
733

What this article is

Prashant Kishor, colloquially known as PK, is an Indian politician currently serving as the Member of Legislative Assembly representing Bankipur assembly constituency, Patna, Bihar. He is a former political strategist, political advisor, consultant, and the founder of the Jan Suraaj Party. He worked in public health in a United Nations funded programme for eight years before venturing into Indian politics and working as a political strategist.

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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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