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Wikimedia Foundation saw 86x more Wikipedia readers than usual
Wikimedia Foundation drew 295,244 views on 2026-10-06, 86x more than the usual 3,430 a day over the previous 60 days.
Wikimedia Foundation
American charitable organization
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | 295,244 |
| 2026-10-05 | 269,550 |
| 2026-10-04 | 2,864 |
| 2026-10-03 | 3,217 |
| 2026-10-02 | 3,099 |
| 2026-10-01 | 3,348 |
| 2026-09-30 | 3,300 |
| 2026-09-29 | 3,518 |
| 2026-09-28 | 3,539 |
| 2026-09-27 | 3,239 |
| 2026-09-26 | 3,160 |
| 2026-09-25 | 3,408 |
| 2026-09-24 | 3,481 |
| 2026-09-23 | 3,742 |
| 2026-09-22 | 4,048 |
| 2026-09-21 | 3,687 |
| 2026-09-20 | 3,358 |
| 2026-09-19 | 3,245 |
| 2026-09-18 | 3,651 |
| 2026-09-17 | 3,871 |
| 2026-09-16 | 3,708 |
| 2026-09-15 | 3,891 |
| 2026-09-14 | 3,863 |
| 2026-09-13 | 3,605 |
| 2026-09-12 | 3,602 |
| 2026-09-11 | 3,434 |
| 2026-09-10 | 3,842 |
| 2026-09-09 | 3,778 |
| 2026-09-08 | 3,939 |
| 2026-09-07 | 3,611 |
| 2026-09-06 | 3,438 |
| 2026-09-05 | 3,329 |
| 2026-09-04 | 3,832 |
| 2026-09-03 | 3,728 |
| 2026-09-02 | 3,864 |
| 2026-09-01 | 3,543 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3,626 |
| 2026-08-30 | 3,415 |
| 2026-08-29 | 3,573 |
| 2026-08-28 | 3,730 |
| 2026-08-27 | 3,840 |
| 2026-08-26 | 3,733 |
| 2026-08-25 | 3,820 |
| 2026-08-24 | 3,427 |
| 2026-08-23 | 3,392 |
What this article is
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is most known for hosting Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites. It also hosts and operates 14 related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, which is the wiki software that underpins them. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects that had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company.
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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.