2026-09-18 · This surge ran for 6 days and has since subsided.
Warren Buffett is drawing 11x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Warren Buffett drew 52,021 views on 2026-09-18, 11x more than the usual 4,588 a day over the previous 60 days.
Warren Buffett
American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 | 52,021 |
| 2026-09-17 | 5,462 |
| 2026-09-16 | 4,587 |
| 2026-09-15 | 4,459 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4,296 |
| 2026-09-13 | 4,012 |
| 2026-09-12 | 4,565 |
| 2026-09-11 | 4,620 |
| 2026-09-10 | 4,105 |
| 2026-09-09 | 3,940 |
| 2026-09-08 | 4,223 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4,050 |
| 2026-09-06 | 4,113 |
| 2026-09-05 | 3,784 |
| 2026-09-04 | 4,243 |
| 2026-09-03 | 4,588 |
| 2026-09-02 | 5,153 |
| 2026-09-01 | 5,710 |
| 2026-08-31 | 6,789 |
| 2026-08-30 | 6,228 |
| 2026-08-29 | 4,297 |
| 2026-08-28 | 4,331 |
| 2026-08-27 | 4,352 |
| 2026-08-26 | 4,988 |
| 2026-08-25 | 5,018 |
| 2026-08-24 | 4,886 |
| 2026-08-23 | 4,839 |
| 2026-08-22 | 4,293 |
| 2026-08-21 | 4,427 |
| 2026-08-20 | 4,658 |
| 2026-08-19 | 5,368 |
| 2026-08-18 | 7,724 |
| 2026-08-17 | 4,807 |
| 2026-08-16 | 4,589 |
| 2026-08-15 | 4,132 |
| 2026-08-14 | 4,522 |
| 2026-08-13 | 4,540 |
| 2026-08-12 | 4,496 |
| 2026-08-11 | 4,796 |
| 2026-08-10 | 5,356 |
| 2026-08-09 | 5,478 |
| 2026-08-08 | 5,108 |
| 2026-08-07 | 4,755 |
| 2026-08-06 | 4,630 |
| 2026-08-05 | 4,870 |
What this article is
Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman emeritus and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in the world. According to Forbes, as of January 2026, Buffett's estimated net worth stood at US$148.9 billion, making him the ninth-richest person in the world.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 7 edits to this article on 2026-09-18, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Early life and education
- High technology
- Wealth
What changed that day
The article grew by 1,031 characters that day. The largest single addition was 480 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-18 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.