The biggest attention jumps of the past week

Most weeks, a small group of people go from their usual level of interest to many times that. This post looks at the seven days ending 8 November 2026 and lists the people whose Wikipedia page views rose the most compared with the seven days before. All figures are as of early November 2026.

The week covered the 3 November 2026 US midterm elections, and the list shows it. Where a person's Wikipedia entry now records an election result, we note it below.

How we measure a weekly jump

For each person we take the average daily Wikipedia page views over the latest seven days and compare it with the average over the previous seven days. The result is a ratio: a person who went from 1,000 to 3,000 views a day has roughly tripled.

• A minimum audience. A person needs at least 500 average daily views in the earlier week. That stops tiny articles from topping the list because of a few extra visits.
• A minimum jump. The latest week has to be at least 1.2 times the earlier one, so ordinary week-to-week wobbles stay out.
• Each person against themselves. Nobody is compared with anyone else, so a niche figure and a household name are judged on the same terms.

The live version of this list refreshes daily at Rising this week. A one-day version sits at Rising today.

The top five

This week's jumps were unusually large. Even the 25th-largest rise on our list was about 14 times the previous week, far above the 1.2x floor.

1. Omar Abdullah, an Indian politician who has served as chief minister of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir since 2024. Average daily views went from about 730 to about 46,500, roughly 63 times the week before.
2. Gardner Minshew, an American professional football player who is a quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. From about 540 a day to about 23,000, around 42 times higher.
3. Deb Haaland, the former US secretary of the interior, now governor-elect of New Mexico. From about 840 a day to about 27,900, roughly 33 times higher.
4. Haley Stevens, the US representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district since 2019. From about 8,000 a day to about 207,000, roughly 26 times higher.
5. Gina Hinojosa, a lawyer and member of the Texas House of Representatives, now governor-elect of Texas. From about 9,600 a day to about 246,000, also roughly 26 times higher.

Stevens and Hinojosa stand out on raw volume: they started from a much higher base and ended the week with the two largest daily audiences on the whole list.

A week dominated by politics

Of the 25 largest weekly jumps, 19 belong to people in our politics category, and most of them are American. Many of them were on the ballot on 3 November. Among those whose entries now record a win are Chris Pappas, US senator-elect from New Hampshire; Vikki Goodwin, lieutenant governor-elect of Texas; Nancy Lacore, representative-elect for South Carolina's 1st district; Richard Ojeda, member-elect for North Carolina's 9th district; and Melat Kiros, incoming representative for Colorado's 1st district.

US politics

• Nancy Lacore, a retired US Navy vice admiral and former chief of Navy Reserve, now representative-elect for South Carolina's 1st district: about 710 to 16,900 a day, around 24 times.
• Debbie Dingell, a US representative from Michigan since 2015: about 510 to 11,600, around 23 times.
• Vikki Goodwin, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, now lieutenant governor-elect of Texas: about 580 to 13,300, around 23 times.
• Richard Ojeda, a retired US Army major and former West Virginia state senator, now member-elect for North Carolina's 9th congressional district: about 650 to 12,700, around 20 times.
• Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic Party from 2012 to 2025 and father of Gina Hinojosa: about 1,600 to 30,100, around 19 times.
• Hakeem Jeffries, the US representative for New York's 8th congressional district since 2013: about 3,100 to 58,000, around 19 times.
• Chris Van Hollen, the senior US senator from Maryland since 2017: about 810 to 14,700, around 18 times.
• Melat Kiros, a lawyer and incoming representative for Colorado's 1st congressional district: about 820 to 14,600, around 18 times.
• Nithya Raman, an urban planner and Los Angeles city councilmember, now mayor-elect of Los Angeles: about 4,200 to 69,700, around 16 times.
• Chris Pappas, US senator-elect from New Hampshire: about 2,400 to 39,600, around 16 times.
• Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL officer and US representative for Texas's 2nd district since 2019: about 760 to 11,700, around 15 times.
• Stacey Abrams, a politician, lawyer, voting rights activist and author: about 990 to 14,500, around 15 times.
• Chuck Schumer, the senior US senator from New York and leader of the Senate Democrats: about 2,300 to 33,100, around 14 times.

Beyond Washington

Two Indian politicians from Jammu and Kashmir made the list. Alongside Omar Abdullah at the top, Farooq Abdullah, president of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference and chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions between 1982 and 2002, went from about 810 to 16,600 views a day, around 21 times.

One journalist also appears: Steve Kornacki, a national political correspondent for NBC News, rose from about 1,200 to 23,400 a day, around 20 times.

Sport

Three sports figures broke into a list otherwise led by politics:

• Gardner Minshew, covered above, was the second-largest jump of the week.
• Scott Parker, an English football manager and former player: about 870 to 21,000 a day, around 24 times.
• Mike Norvell, who coached Florida State from 2020 until he was fired in 2026: about 640 to 9,500 a day, around 15 times.

Reading these numbers sensibly

• A ratio measures surprise, not fame. A 20x jump from 600 views a day is still a smaller audience than a 15x jump from 4,000.
• Weekly averages smooth things out. One very large day can lift a seven-day average on its own, so a big ratio doesn't mean every day was busy.
• Views measure curiosity, not approval. People look things up for all sorts of reasons. A jump tells you interest changed, nothing more.

To see what sits behind any of these jumps, open the person's page. Each one carries the latest headlines we have matched to them, along with their recent view history. The full ranking of who is drawing attention above their own normal right now is on our trending page, and the page view figures themselves come from Wikipedia's public pageview statistics.