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Wikipedia readers turned to Spider-Man in film at 8.4x the usual rate

Spider-Man in film drew 46,858 views on 2026-08-08, 8.4x more than the usual 5,586 a day over the previous 60 days.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Spider-Man in film
DateViews
2026-08-0846,858
2026-08-0741,667
2026-08-0643,980
2026-08-0550,145
2026-08-0454,726
2026-08-0365,343
2026-08-0275,180
2026-08-0171,446
2026-07-3159,770
2026-07-3045,670
2026-07-2927,518
2026-07-2820,857
2026-07-2715,401
2026-07-2617,073
2026-07-2514,300
2026-07-2411,597
2026-07-2310,610
2026-07-2211,107
2026-07-219,720
2026-07-208,414
2026-07-198,858
2026-07-188,093
2026-07-176,952
2026-07-166,084
2026-07-155,469
2026-07-145,704
2026-07-136,160
2026-07-126,471
2026-07-115,964
2026-07-105,779
2026-07-095,041
2026-07-084,546
2026-07-074,348
2026-07-064,521
2026-07-055,926
2026-07-044,867
2026-07-034,412
2026-07-024,047
2026-07-013,827
2026-06-303,745
2026-06-293,668
2026-06-284,417
2026-06-274,297
2026-06-263,836
2026-06-253,888
Views that day
46,858
Versus normal
8.4x
Typical day
5,586

What this article is

Spider-Man, a superhero character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for comic books published by Marvel Comics, has appeared in film since CBS's 1977 television film pilot, for the program The Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel Comics pursued plans for a feature film in the 1980s in a tumultuous development process that involved multiple directors, writers, and financiers. After protracted litigation over the Spider-Man copyrights, Sony Pictures and its subsidiary Columbia obtained the film rights for $7 million from Marvel in 1999.

Summary text from the Wikipedia article "Spider-Man in film", available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full article.

Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-08-08, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

  • Box office
  • Early adaptations
  • Licensing agreement with Marvel Studios

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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