The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia • Hacker News Board

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by zappo2938 » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #5

I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!

Can't caching a page with varnish and memcache handle this?

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #5

I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!

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Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by teamhappy » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #4

What happened at 7:15?

End of a news broadcast maybe (end of the 10 o'clock news on the west coast would work I think)

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by Amorymeltzer » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC

tgb wrote: post #7

"He was ... known for, among many other things, ... a performance at Super Bowl XLI in a raining downpour in front of over a hundred million people." Typo and/or I call bullshit.

This[1] seems to indicate viewership of the halftime show peaked at 140M.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20090412054158/http://www.suntim...

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:02 PM UTC

zappo2938 wrote: post #11

chris_wot wrote: post #5

I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!

Can't caching a page with varnish and memcache handle this?

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Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by nothrabannosir » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:08 PM UTC

zappo2938 wrote: post #11

chris_wot wrote: post #5

I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!

Can't caching a page with varnish and memcache handle this?

They cache the bejeezus out of their pages. Problems come up when a lot of people want to edit a page, an inherently uncacheable operation.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by gobakhan » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

tgb wrote: post #7

"He was ... known for, among many other things, ... a performance at Super Bowl XLI in a raining downpour in front of over a hundred million people." Typo and/or I call bullshit.

I would assume they are including the tv audience as well.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by CaptSpify » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

Buge wrote: post #6

Interesting how in the graph it looks like some people found out about 25 minutes before it was more publicly found out.

I wonder if there's a crossover between celebrity reporters, and people who update Wikipedia on celebrities?

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by untog » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

zappo2938 wrote: post #11

chris_wot wrote: post #5

I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!

Can't caching a page with varnish and memcache handle this?

So... did you read the article?

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by fineIllregister » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 8:18 PM UTC

Buge wrote: post #6

Interesting how in the graph it looks like some people found out about 25 minutes before it was more publicly found out.

I don't know the exact timeline, but my understanding is that there were reports of a death in the area where Prince lived before it was known that it was Prince.