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

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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-wikipedia-may-have-set-a-record/

Carcharoth