Henry McMaster saw 184x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Henry Dargan McMaster is an American politician and attorney serving since 2017 as the 117th governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2003 to 2011 as the 50th attorney general of South Carolina and from 2015 to 2017 as the 91st lieutenant governor of South Carolina, under Governor Nikki Haley.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-07-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Endorsements

What changed that day

The article lost 2 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-07-12 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.