2026-05-14 · This surge ran for 17 days and has since subsided.
Wikipedia readers turned to V. D. Satheesan at 142x the usual rate
V. D. Satheesan drew 185,105 views on 2026-05-14, 142x more than the usual 1,308 a day over the previous 60 days.
V. D. Satheesan
Chief Minister of Kerala since May 2026
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-14 | 185,105 |
| 2026-05-13 | 14,353 |
| 2026-05-12 | 8,065 |
| 2026-05-11 | 9,971 |
| 2026-05-10 | 12,397 |
| 2026-05-09 | 20,675 |
| 2026-05-08 | 18,351 |
| 2026-05-07 | 18,652 |
| 2026-05-06 | 16,577 |
| 2026-05-05 | 22,858 |
| 2026-05-04 | 48,445 |
| 2026-05-03 | 3,626 |
| 2026-05-02 | 1,639 |
| 2026-05-01 | 1,792 |
| 2026-04-30 | 3,099 |
| 2026-04-29 | 3,252 |
| 2026-04-28 | 626 |
| 2026-04-27 | 611 |
| 2026-04-26 | 664 |
| 2026-04-25 | 831 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1,461 |
| 2026-04-23 | 798 |
| 2026-04-22 | 597 |
| 2026-04-21 | 590 |
| 2026-04-20 | 713 |
| 2026-04-19 | 908 |
| 2026-04-18 | 855 |
| 2026-04-17 | 931 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1,392 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1,363 |
| 2026-04-14 | 984 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1,235 |
| 2026-04-12 | 1,784 |
| 2026-04-11 | 3,429 |
| 2026-04-10 | 8,004 |
| 2026-04-09 | 3,919 |
| 2026-04-08 | 2,286 |
| 2026-04-07 | 2,089 |
| 2026-04-06 | 1,676 |
| 2026-04-05 | 1,230 |
| 2026-04-04 | 1,298 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1,230 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1,080 |
| 2026-04-01 | 1,248 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1,365 |
What this article is
Vadasseri Damodaran Satheesan is an Indian politician and lawyer who is serving as the 13th Chief Minister of Kerala since May 2026. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Paravur in the Kerala Legislative Assembly since 2001.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 57 edits to this article on 2026-05-14, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Political career
- Early life
- Early life and career
What changed that day
The article grew by 1,292 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,013 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-14 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.
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.