[WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

[Carcharoth]

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Internet_sites_and_sparks_hoaxes

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