Slashdot effect

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting or the hug of death, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Slashdot effect”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: User:Teehee123, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.