Dominique McElligott saw 15x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Dominique McElligott is an Irish semi-retired actress. She has appeared as a series regular on Raw (2008), Hell on Wheels (2011–2012), The Astronaut Wives Club (2015), House of Cards (2016–2017), and The Last Tycoon (2016), portraying Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve in the superhero series The Boys (2019–2022) and The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 6 edits to this article on 2026-05-21, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Career

What changed that day

The article grew by 247 characters that day. The largest single addition was 243 characters to Career. See everything that changed on 2026-05-21 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.