Wikipedia readers turned to Verity (novel) at 49x the usual rate

What this article is

Verity is a 2018 psychological romantic thriller novel by American author Colleen Hoover. The narrative follows Lowen Ashleigh, a writer who is hired to complete a bestselling book series after an accident leaves its original author, Verity Crawford, unable to do so. While staying at the Crawford family home, Lowen discovers an unfinished manuscript that reveals unsettling details about Verity's past.

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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.