Wikipedia readers turned to House of the Dragon at 20x the usual rate

What this article is

House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. Based on parts of Martin's 2018 book Fire & Blood, the series begins about 100 years after the Seven Kingdoms are united by the Targaryen conquest, nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. Featuring an ensemble cast, the show portrays the events leading up to the decline of House Targaryen, a devastating war of succession known as the "Dance of the Dragons".

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-06-22, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Cast and characters

What changed that day

The article grew by 309 characters that day. The largest single addition was 190 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-22 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

1 other article 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.

• House of the Dragon season 3 Season of streaming series

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.