lsanger(a)ross.bomis.com wrote:
I was interviewed by a NYT reporter on Tuesday or
Wednesday. Jimbo told
me is was going to be (perhaps already have been) interviewed as well.
Yes. The reporter clarified that he is a freelancer, but the piece will appear
in the NYT. He suggested to me that Wikipedia might well be the focus of the
article.
If so, Wikipedia is going to flooded with traffic--at
least as much as
with the Slashdotting.
I don't necessarily agree with this. The NYT may be powerful, but it isn't
exactly slashdot. :-)
It's totally within the realm of possibility that
we will have an order of
magnitude greater amount of traffic than we had during the Slashdotting.
Now, the server can probably handle even that (right, Jimbo?) but I have
my worries about the software.
Yes, the server can handle that, but we'll probably have edit lock problems.
We have a cron job to clear those, though, and I plan to make the instructions
for peopel to clear it themselves more clear before the article appears.
Also, we have a fastcgi version of the software ready to run if that becomes
necessary. fastcgi is many many many times faster than cgi.
--Jimbo
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