Wiki crashed on Pop star Death
"... we first noticed something was going on when IM services such as AOL Instant Messenger started logging people out—we quickly noticed that our own servers were hitting load spikes, and suspected there was something going on..."
That from the Wikimedia Tech Blog, written by the folks who manage Wikipedia's tech operations, explaining how they first learned that Michael Jackson had died.
The graph (from the blog post) shows the traffic spike that took place around 2 p.m. PT (22:00 GMT), when the news first broke.
Michael Jackon's Wikipedia page is currently locked, meaning only authorized users may edit it. The page's edit history indicates that the protection level was changed at 1:45 p.m. PT (21:45 GMT), after news first surfaced that Jackson had been taken to the hospital. The notation accompanying that changes said the change was made to "make sure that the page doesn't get swamped." Still, about 150 changes have been made to the page in the 4 1/2 hours since then.
From www.mediabistro.com
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