I found the article on digg. The Wiki people say that he didn't crash their server, that the server crash happening at the same time as every Colbert viewer attempted to edit the Elephants page was entirely coincidental. To which I say... yeah. Uh huh. Riiiiiiiiiight.

Ooh, I apparently was prescient enough to bookmark it. Go me. It's up here: http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6100754.html (http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6100754.html)

Stephen Colbert, you rock.