Just a quick note -- we're experiencing some fun load spikes due to heavy net usage of people searching for or talking about Michael Jackson's reported death or near-death.
You may see some intermittent database connection failures on en.wikipedia.org for a little while as connections back up; we're poking to see if we can reduce this.
Updates at tech blog: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/06/current-events/
-- brion