Verity (film) saw 18x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Verity is a 2026 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Michael Showalter, written by Nick Antosca, and based on Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-10-06, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Critical response

What changed that day

The largest single addition was 2 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-10-06 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.

• Dakota Johnson American actress (born 1989)

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.