2009/6/26 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Inte...
Is there anything anywhere (apart from the long thread on ANI) about the effect on traffic for Wikipedia?
Ah. Here we go:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael_Jackson
6.4K hits to to 1.4M.
That's a traffic spike right enough.
Carcharoth
I think we will see an even bigger one when we get the stats for today. Page was at over 1 million views an hour a peak.