UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates saw 40x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on May 2, 2026, at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 30 edits to this article on 2026-05-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Fight card
• Background
• Results

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,077 characters that day. The largest single addition was 531 characters to Results. See everything that changed on 2026-05-02 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.

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.