The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia

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Post by The_ed17 » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia
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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:21 PM UTC

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Post by JBReefer » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

This is so impressive, to see behind the curtains of what has become the central repository of humanities knowledge, during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats.

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Post by cmdrfred » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:32 PM UTC

What happened at 7:15?

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Post by chris_wot » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:34 PM UTC

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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Post by Buge » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:39 PM UTC

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

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Post by tgb » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:49 PM UTC

"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.

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Post by Karunamon » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:52 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.

That's actually spot on if you count the TV viewing audience - 112M people as of the 2014 event.

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Post by semi-extrinsic » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

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.

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Post by dtparr » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 7:55 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.

That presumably includes the television audience.