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

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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