Wikipedia readers turned to Look Mum No Computer at 112x the usual rate

What this article is

Sam James Bartle, known by the stage names Sam Battle and Look Mum No Computer, is an English musician, YouTuber, electronics enthusiast, and composer. He posts videos about making pro audio equipment and synthesisers, as well as original music.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 29 edits to this article on 2026-05-16, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Early life
• Career
• Personal life

What changed that day

The article grew by 64 characters that day. The largest single addition was 282 characters. 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.

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.