Ethan Slater saw 27x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Ethan Samuel Slater is an American actor and singer. He played the character of SpongeBob SquarePants in the 2016 musical of the same name, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Boq Woodsman / The Tin Man in the musical films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025). He also portrayed Thomas Godolkin in the superhero series Gen V (2025), a role he will reprise in its prequel Vought Rising (2027). As a singer, he has released the extended plays Wanderer (2019) and Life Is Weird (2020).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 20 edits to this article on 2026-06-09, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life

What changed that day

The article grew by 359 characters that day. The largest single addition was 302 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-09 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.