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The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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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 found a few references to stories about a 'medical situation' at Paisley Park that came out before TMZ's report—I'm assuming it was those reports.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Even in peak it's just ~800 hits per second - it shows how is irrelevant the C10k problem (yes, I know it's not exactly about hits per second, but still).

C10k doesn't come up with Wikipedia because it doesn't do websockets. If it did it would probably have millions of concurrent connections, far over 10k. I dare say 10k is a bit passe. Whatsapp can apparently do 2m/server.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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They mentioned 5M views within 24 hours of Michael Jackson's death. With over 3B Internet users out there, I am actually a little surprised how small the spike was. Did they only count English Wikipedia? Even so I am quite surprised. I would expect 10-20M at least. Similarly, many young people like myself have never heard of Prince, I had to look him up to find out who he truly was.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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post #6

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

16:49 UTC refers to when TMZ first reported Prince died. Prior to that, there had been plenty of reports that there were ambulances at Paisley Park. It is not strange that people would google either "paisley park" or "prince" and then follow the results to Prince's wiki page.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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post #24

Even in peak it's just ~800 hits per second - it shows how is irrelevant the C10k problem (yes, I know it's not exactly about hits per second, but still).

C10k doesn't come up with Wikipedia because it doesn't do websockets. If it did it would probably have millions of concurrent connections, far over 10k. I dare say 10k is a bit passe. Whatsapp can apparently do 2m/server.

2m per second? These guys must have squeezed every ounce of performance out of Beam.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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For others who were left scratching their heads at what exactly this pop-sci-explained PoolCounter mechanism actually is: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PoolCounter TL;DR: It's a limiter on how many workers start rendering the new page version when the old page version in cache has been invalidated.

+1 for whoever named it the "Michael Jackson problem". I'm going to start using that if I ever encounter the same issue myself.

Re: The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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post #28
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C10k doesn't come up with Wikipedia because it doesn't do websockets. If it did it would probably have millions of concurrent connections, far over 10k. I dare say 10k is a bit passe. Whatsapp can apparently do 2m/server.

2m per second ? These guys must have squeezed every ounce of performance out of Beam.

2m refers to concurrent connections, not rate.
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