João Mário Miranda wrote:
Is it a good idea to change to the new software after a press release? Imagine something goes wrong and some newspaper features wikipedia in the same day thing go wrong...
We should certainly proceed with caution. But press releases, in my personal experience, don't usually lead to much traffic directly.
Keep in mind that a slashdot story can generate significantly more times traffic than even the New York Times article did. The AP article hardly produced even a blip.