How the death of famous people affects the work of Wikipedia
You can not love the work of Prince, and you may not know about it. In any case, he made an invaluable contribution to modern culture. But the conversation is not about who he was and what he did, but about how the death of such a person affects Wikipedia. The number of page views of the artist and producer within an hour and a half after death reached almost 50,000 per minute, and in the first hour the page was visited 1.84 million times.
Prince's name is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the video below, he has a great guitar solo from 3:28.
April 21, 2016 in Minnesota, died Prince, an American singer and multi-instrumentalist, a performer in different styles from funk and rhythm and blues to rock, which had a huge impact on music for several decades. Information about the death of Prince appeared in the press at 4:49 PM UTC, after which, for an hour, the English-language Wikipedia page devoted to him was viewed 1.84 million times, that is, 510 times per second.
The peak of page visits was at 17:18, when it was visited 48572 times in one minute - 810 per second.
Wikipedia then had a problem - a large number of people willing to correct the data on the page. This led to conflicts when one editor kept the changes after someone else did. After the death of Prince such errors occurredup to 15 per minute .
Prince's page was opened so often that some users simply could not access it - it did not load. The PoolCounter tool, created to protect resource servers after the death of Michael Jackson in 2009, acted when the page was visited over a day by 5.9 million people, of which a million were in the first hour.
Similar bursts of activity were observed after the death of other famous performers. Within an hour after her death, Whitney Houston visited her page 425 times per second. About Amy Winehouse July 23, 2011 wanted to know more than 377 people per second. Steve Jobs has this figure for an hour after death - 295 times. This is one of the most popular "per hour" articles - pages that have visited the maximum number of people for one hour ever in the history of Wikipedia.
January 10, 2016, another genius, British musician David Bowie , left the world- two days after the release of the 26 studio album. During the day, his page was viewed 7 million times. Before his death, Bowie released a video for the song Lazarus, which began with the words “Look up here, I'm in heaven. I've got to be seen. I've got drama, can't be stolen. Everybody knows me now. " So the musician said goodbye to us.
On this chart are the page views of David Bowie and actor Alan Rickman, both gone with a difference of several days at the age of 69 years.
For several months, Wikipedia editors will discuss the facts in articles about Prince and supplement it. Only on April 22, they made about 600 edits in the English version.
Prince's name is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the video below, he has a great guitar solo from 3:28.
April 21, 2016 in Minnesota, died Prince, an American singer and multi-instrumentalist, a performer in different styles from funk and rhythm and blues to rock, which had a huge impact on music for several decades. Information about the death of Prince appeared in the press at 4:49 PM UTC, after which, for an hour, the English-language Wikipedia page devoted to him was viewed 1.84 million times, that is, 510 times per second.
The peak of page visits was at 17:18, when it was visited 48572 times in one minute - 810 per second.
Wikipedia then had a problem - a large number of people willing to correct the data on the page. This led to conflicts when one editor kept the changes after someone else did. After the death of Prince such errors occurredup to 15 per minute .
Prince's page was opened so often that some users simply could not access it - it did not load. The PoolCounter tool, created to protect resource servers after the death of Michael Jackson in 2009, acted when the page was visited over a day by 5.9 million people, of which a million were in the first hour.
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- Nick Statt (@nickstatt) April 21, 2016
Similar bursts of activity were observed after the death of other famous performers. Within an hour after her death, Whitney Houston visited her page 425 times per second. About Amy Winehouse July 23, 2011 wanted to know more than 377 people per second. Steve Jobs has this figure for an hour after death - 295 times. This is one of the most popular "per hour" articles - pages that have visited the maximum number of people for one hour ever in the history of Wikipedia.
January 10, 2016, another genius, British musician David Bowie , left the world- two days after the release of the 26 studio album. During the day, his page was viewed 7 million times. Before his death, Bowie released a video for the song Lazarus, which began with the words “Look up here, I'm in heaven. I've got to be seen. I've got drama, can't be stolen. Everybody knows me now. " So the musician said goodbye to us.
On this chart are the page views of David Bowie and actor Alan Rickman, both gone with a difference of several days at the age of 69 years.
For several months, Wikipedia editors will discuss the facts in articles about Prince and supplement it. Only on April 22, they made about 600 edits in the English version.