Wikipedia readers turned to The Finders (movement) at 388x the usual rate

What this article is

The Finders were an intentional community and new religious movement founded in Washington, D.C. and Virginia in the late 1960s by former United States Air Force master sergeant Marion Pettie. They believed in New Age and eastern religious ideas, particularly Taoism.

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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.