2026-05-16 · This surge ran for 7 days and has since subsided.
Heart of Midlothian F.C. saw 43x more Wikipedia readers than usual
Heart of Midlothian F.C. drew 74,821 views on 2026-05-16, 43x more than the usual 1,740 a day over the previous 60 days.
Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Association football club in Edinburgh, Scotland
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-16 | 74,821 |
| 2026-05-15 | 12,390 |
| 2026-05-14 | 15,353 |
| 2026-05-13 | 20,216 |
| 2026-05-12 | 4,114 |
| 2026-05-11 | 4,929 |
| 2026-05-10 | 9,248 |
| 2026-05-09 | 10,061 |
| 2026-05-08 | 3,956 |
| 2026-05-07 | 4,865 |
| 2026-05-06 | 7,267 |
| 2026-05-05 | 18,096 |
| 2026-05-04 | 28,237 |
| 2026-05-03 | 3,870 |
| 2026-05-02 | 2,364 |
| 2026-05-01 | 2,067 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1,551 |
| 2026-04-29 | 2,130 |
| 2026-04-28 | 3,071 |
| 2026-04-27 | 6,200 |
| 2026-04-26 | 10,353 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1,708 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1,410 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1,494 |
| 2026-04-22 | 1,573 |
| 2026-04-21 | 1,306 |
| 2026-04-20 | 1,399 |
| 2026-04-19 | 1,772 |
| 2026-04-18 | 1,509 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1,333 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1,158 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1,121 |
| 2026-04-14 | 1,277 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1,676 |
| 2026-04-12 | 2,968 |
| 2026-04-11 | 2,908 |
| 2026-04-10 | 1,114 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1,124 |
| 2026-04-08 | 1,291 |
| 2026-04-07 | 1,774 |
| 2026-04-06 | 2,103 |
| 2026-04-05 | 5,722 |
| 2026-04-04 | 1,837 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1,427 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1,017 |
What this article is
Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football. Hearts, the oldest football club in the Scottish capital, was formed in 1874, its name influenced by Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian (1818). The club crest is based on the Heart of Midlothian mosaic on the city's Royal Mile; the team's colours are maroon and white. Their local rivals are Hibernian, with whom they contest the Edinburgh derby.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 9 edits to this article on 2026-05-16, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Hall of fame
- Major honours
- Players
- Post-administration
What changed that day
The article lost 1,428 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 580 characters to Post-administration. See everything that changed on 2026-05-16 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.
Rose at the same time
3 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.
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.