  The Wikipedia is a web portal created by users and its simplicity, references
and also the inclusion as insets introductory paragraphs for their pages in
Google search results have made it the go-to place to find out about current
events or people featured in them. Besides, its open application programming
interface (API) allows any user to know about the number of visits some
particular page has. In this paper, after certain events that made Copernicus a
viral meme in Spain, we study the intensity and duration of the increment of
visits to his page and other pages related to the event. Using pages related to
other persons as a comparison, we try to establish a typical duration of
notoriety achieved through social networks, mainly comparing with visits in
previous years in the same dates. We conclude that a 7 day duration is the
statistical mode and that this duration is relatively independent of the
initial increase in the number of visits.
