Thursday, 11 April 2013

Wikipedia can help give news junkies their fix

WITHIN minutes of Michael Jackson's death in June 2009, Wikipedia's editors were updating his page. The hive of activity, as editors changed tenses, timings and circumstances of the pop star's demise, caused server load "spikes" on Wikipedia's network. Such spikes could alert us to breaking news.
crawled from : Newscientist

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