Owain Yeoman is drawing 52x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Owain Sebastian Yeoman is a Welsh actor, best known for playing CBI Agent Wayne Rigsby in the CBS series The Mentalist. His additional credits include The Nine, Kitchen Confidential, Turn, Generation Kill, and Emergence.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 3 edits to this article on 2026-08-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life

What changed that day

The article lost 8 characters on balance that day. See everything that changed on 2026-08-11 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.