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
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
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.
Hmm.
"Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link currently broken)"
Link currently broken? Tsk.
Carcharoth
Carcharoth wrote:
Hmm. "Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link currently broken)"
Link currently broken? Tsk.
See below, from Jay Walsh (to foundation-l):
Jay Walsh wrote:
Hi all - just a quick FYI in case you attempt to access the Foundations two official blogs,
We've had to shut both blogs down (they live in the same server space) to investigate some tech/patch issues with wordpress. We're hoping to have things back up by the weekend or early next week at the latest.
Wanted to let people know in case you were trying to access and were having troubles.
Thanks!
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
"Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link currently broken)"
Link currently broken? Tsk.
It's from the techblog http://techblog.wikimedia.org/, but the WMF blogs are currently down due to some software issues unfortunately.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
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.
Hmm.
"Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news. (link currently broken)"
Link currently broken? Tsk.
Well, even if I can't read what Brion wrote (explanied by others elsewhere in this thread), there is something about it by Noam Cohen in the "mediadecoder blogs" section of the New York Times website.
"With Jackson Entry, Wikipedia May Have Set a Record"
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/with-jackson-entry-wikipedi...
Carcharoth
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Well, even if I can't read what Brion wrote (explanied by others elsewhere in this thread), there is something about it by Noam Cohen in the "mediadecoder blogs" section of the New York Times website.
Google has a cached version anyway, in case you were still wondering. http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Pc7q_EDrc9wJ:techblog.wikimedia.org/+techblog.wikimedia.org&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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.
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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.
2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.
Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 million.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.
Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 million.
Where do the hourly hits stats come from?
Carcharoth
2009/6/26 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.
Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1
million.
Where do the hourly hits stats come from?
[[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages You can check the history for prior hours.
Two thirds of the most popular pages in the past hour are related to Michael Jackson.
Risker
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Ooh. Nice cartoon, but don't scroll down. Horrible photoshopped picture...
Carcharoth
Hmm ... Google "Michael Jackson" and "Wikipedia". Top two hits are enWP pages - no surprise. The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the Afrikaans Wikipedia page. One sentence and more interwikis than you can shake a memory stick at. Google ... what were you thinking of?
Charles
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hmm ... Google "Michael Jackson" and "Wikipedia". Top two hits are enWP pages - no surprise. The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the Afrikaans Wikipedia page. One sentence and more interwikis than you can shake a memory stick at. Google ... what were you thinking of?
Strange. I did a search for:
wikipedia + michael + jackson
Third hit (or second if you discount indented results) was [[li:Michael Jackson]] - Limburgian!
Put quotes around "michael jackson" - same result: third hit (or second if you discount indented results).
Switch order of search:
"michael jackson" + wikipedia
Now the Afrikaans article is where the Limburgian article was. With the Limburgian article in fifth place.
But the results are in flux even as I search.
Maybe we need two new categories:
[[:Category:People whose death disrupts the internet]] [[:Category:People whose death disrupts Google]]
Presumably it is because millions of people are following links and messing things up for Google. Though that might actually be a feature, not a bug. If these other Wikipedia articles are popular, that affects the Google results, doesn't it? [Forgive me if that completely misunderstands how Google works.]
Of course, most people search for michael + jackson, and get the news results, the official site, and the Wikipedia article, so things are really working OK (if you agree that Wikipedia articles should be so high up the search results - something I'm not always sure about). I mean, does anyone apart from those looking for the Wikipedia article put "Wikipedia" in the search box?
Carcharoth
Charles Matthews schreef:
The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the Afrikaans Wikipedia page.
Likely because "Afrikaans" is the first interwiki link on the English wikipedia (and other large WPs). Such a prominent link from the number 1 Google hit apparently gives it a large boost in the search results.
Eugene
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Riskerrisker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/26 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Where do the hourly hits stats come from?
[[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages You can check the history for prior hours.
Thanks. You can guess the next question, right? :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles
Which is updated by a bot.
Cool! A map of the Earth showing which parts of the world are sleeping (or should be sleeping).
I ended up here:
Nice site.
With a FAQ:
http://wikistics.falsikon.de/faq.htm
Carcharoth
2009/6/26 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.
Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 million.
-- geni
5.9 million total for the day.