2009/6/26 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > 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.
Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
