Article traffic for Wikipedia entries has been seen to increase whenever the subject made the news, or the concept was mentioned in some prominent public article or other artistic work. Recent data is partially inaccurate as mobile views are not counted.
Please note; data on ordinary Wikipedia entries seems to indicate that website traffic regularly drops every Saturday. For evidence, you can view the statistics at this link: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?pages=Dune&range=latest-90