Wikipedia outage report for May's Pope traffic spike
30 points by cdanis
30 points by cdanis
Glad to see the outage was not that long thanks to Marseille’s datacenter, it’s funny to think that in 2025 something like electing a pope can result in some kind of a denial of service for an encyclopedia.
If anything, I’d expect a papal announcement to break the site. The population of Latin America and the Caribbean grew 8% in the last decade, that’s 49 million additional people. The Philippines grew by 11%, that’s 12 million extra people. They’re 75% Catholic.