2026-05-14 · This surge ran for 16 days and has since subsided.
Wes Streeting is drawing 184x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Wes Streeting drew 227,168 views on 2026-05-14, 184x more than the usual 1,236 a day over the previous 60 days.
Wes Streeting
British politician (born 1983)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-14 | 227,168 |
| 2026-05-13 | 198,815 |
| 2026-05-12 | 79,662 |
| 2026-05-11 | 28,580 |
| 2026-05-10 | 12,341 |
| 2026-05-09 | 4,691 |
| 2026-05-08 | 3,076 |
| 2026-05-07 | 1,390 |
| 2026-05-06 | 1,007 |
| 2026-05-05 | 1,088 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1,517 |
| 2026-05-03 | 1,568 |
| 2026-05-02 | 3,818 |
| 2026-05-01 | 1,940 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1,611 |
| 2026-04-29 | 815 |
| 2026-04-28 | 936 |
| 2026-04-27 | 837 |
| 2026-04-26 | 922 |
| 2026-04-25 | 907 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1,180 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1,314 |
| 2026-04-22 | 1,483 |
| 2026-04-21 | 1,307 |
| 2026-04-20 | 993 |
| 2026-04-19 | 846 |
| 2026-04-18 | 1,157 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1,458 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1,463 |
| 2026-04-15 | 3,030 |
| 2026-04-14 | 816 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1,500 |
| 2026-04-12 | 7,063 |
| 2026-04-11 | 382 |
| 2026-04-10 | 533 |
| 2026-04-09 | 538 |
| 2026-04-08 | 678 |
| 2026-04-07 | 2,988 |
| 2026-04-06 | 566 |
| 2026-04-05 | 783 |
| 2026-04-04 | 864 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1,293 |
| 2026-04-02 | 465 |
| 2026-04-01 | 535 |
| 2026-03-31 | 612 |
What this article is
Wesley Paul William Streeting is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Defence since 2026. He previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2024 until his resignation in 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 35 edits to this article on 2026-05-14, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Health Secretary (2024–2026)
- Early life and education
- Health Secretary (2024–present)
What changed that day
The article grew by 879 characters that day. The largest single addition was 502 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.
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.