Boeing C-32 saw 209x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Boeing C-32 is the United States Air Force designation for variants of the Boeing 757 in military service. Two variants exist, filling different parts of the military passenger transport role. The C-32A serves the Special Air Mission, providing executive transport and broad communications capabilities to senior political officials, while the C-32B Gatekeeper provides clandestine airlift to special operations and global emergency response efforts, a role known as "covered air."

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-08-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Operational history
• Development

What changed that day

The article grew by 225 characters that day. The largest single addition was 161 characters to Operational history. See everything that changed on 2026-08-11 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

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.