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Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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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. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp@...> 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by geni
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2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>:
> 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. > > Carcharoth I think we will see an even bigger one when we get the stats for today. Page was at over 1 million views an hour a peak. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Cary Bass-4
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Carcharoth wrote:
> 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. > See below, from Jay Walsh (to foundation-l): Jay Walsh wrote: > Hi all - just a quick FYI in case you attempt to access the > Foundations two official blogs, > > We've had to shut both blogs down (they live in the same server space) > to investigate some tech/patch issues with wordpress. We're hoping to > have things back up by the weekend or early next week at the latest. > > Wanted to let people know in case you were trying to access and were > having troubles. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Casey Brown-3
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp@...> wrote:
> "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. > It's from the techblog <http://techblog.wikimedia.org/>, but the WMF blogs are currently down due to some software issues unfortunately. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Andrew Gray-3
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2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>:
> 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 andrew.gray@... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by geni
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2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@...>:
> 2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>: >> 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. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, geni<geniice@...> wrote:
> 2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@...>: >> 2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>: >>> 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? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Risker
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2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, geni<geniice@...> wrote: > > 2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@...>: > >> 2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>: > >>> > 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? > > 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 WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by David Gerard-2
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http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/131545.html
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Risker<risker.wp@...> wrote:
> 2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...> wrote: >> 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. Thanks. You can guess the next question, right? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles Which is updated by a bot. Cool! A map of the Earth showing which parts of the world are sleeping (or should be sleeping). I ended up here: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/ Nice site. With a FAQ: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/faq.htm Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:14 PM, David Gerard<dgerard@...> wrote:
> http://stereotypist.livejournal.com/131545.html Ooh. Nice cartoon, but don't scroll down. Horrible photoshopped picture... Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Charles Matthews
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Hmm ... Google "Michael Jackson" and "Wikipedia". Top two hits are enWP
pages - no surprise. The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the Afrikaans Wikipedia page. One sentence and more interwikis than you can shake a memory stick at. Google ... what were you thinking of? Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews@...> wrote: > Hmm ... Google "Michael Jackson" and "Wikipedia". Top two hits are enWP > pages - no surprise. The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the > Afrikaans Wikipedia page. One sentence and more interwikis than you can > shake a memory stick at. Google ... what were you thinking of? Strange. I did a search for: wikipedia + michael + jackson Third hit (or second if you discount indented results) was [[li:Michael Jackson]] - Limburgian! Put quotes around "michael jackson" - same result: third hit (or second if you discount indented results). Switch order of search: "michael jackson" + wikipedia Now the Afrikaans article is where the Limburgian article was. With the Limburgian article in fifth place. But the results are in flux even as I search. Maybe we need two new categories: [[:Category:People whose death disrupts the internet]] [[:Category:People whose death disrupts Google]] Presumably it is because millions of people are following links and messing things up for Google. Though that might actually be a feature, not a bug. If these other Wikipedia articles are popular, that affects the Google results, doesn't it? [Forgive me if that completely misunderstands how Google works.] Of course, most people search for michael + jackson, and get the news results, the official site, and the Wikipedia article, so things are really working OK (if you agree that Wikipedia articles should be so high up the search results - something I'm not always sure about). I mean, does anyone apart from those looking for the Wikipedia article put "Wikipedia" in the search box? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Carcharoth
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp@...> 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Eugene van der Pijll
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Charles Matthews schreef:
> The third hit is [[af:Michael Jackson]] - yes, the > Afrikaans Wikipedia page. Likely because "Afrikaans" is the first interwiki link on the English wikipedia (and other large WPs). Such a prominent link from the number 1 Google hit apparently gives it a large boost in the search results. Eugene _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by Casey Brown-3
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp@...> wrote:
> 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. Google has a cached version anyway, in case you were still wondering. <http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Pc7q_EDrc9wJ:techblog.wikimedia.org/+techblog.wikimedia.org&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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Re: Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death
by geni
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2009/6/26 geni <geniice@...>:
> 2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@...>: >> 2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp@...>: >>> 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. > > > > -- > geni > 5.9 million total for the day. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l |
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