2025-05-08 16:48 UTC
@wikipedia@wikis.world how does this spike compare to spikes for other major world events? Do positive news events lead to larger spikes on Wikimedia then negative news events like war, or other election results?
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@wikipedia@wikis.world 2025-05-08 16:52
@clusterfcku@mastodon.social really good question — I'm not sure! If I had to guess, I'd say that famous deaths probably cause the largest spikes in traffic... https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_effect is an interesting "behind the scenes" technical read on things like this :) --sf