2009/6/26 Carcharoth <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, geni<[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > >> 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. > > > > Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 > million. > > Where do the hourly hits stats come from? > > [[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages You can check the history for prior hours.
Two thirds of the most popular pages in the past hour are related to Michael Jackson. Risker _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
