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I enjoy that Trump's page views reached their peak on the day he was announced as winner. "Wait, who is this guy that we voted for?"
I imagine it would’ve been people waiting to see if the page was updated.
Why wouldn't it be?
Is this just a count for America or Wikipedia in general. Because in that case it could also just be the rest of the world going "What the hell are you guys doing over there?"
It's for the entire world, for Americans are not really known to look up Indian Telugu-language films on Wikipedia, I presume. So your hypothesis sounds reasonable.
Not for America (or rather the US) specifically, but it's for en.wikipedia.org - the non-English-speaking rest of the world is more likely to use their own language versions of Wikipedia.