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