Andrew Gray wrote: > > > I believe that "scalable" here refers to putting it on pages which > recieve the kind of traffic and editing (or editing attempts) that > very high-profile page on enwiki do, rather than "scalable to being > applied to three million pages". > > At the time Michael Jackson's death was being reported last month, for > example, the page was recieving hundreds of thousands if not millions > of hits; we protected it. Had we flagged-protected it - which we > probably would have done - what would have happened? Would the system > have coped? Would we have been able to handle that flood of edits, > technically and organisationally? > > Sincere thanks for clarifying that for me (also thanks to Chad and Anthony for useful explanations).
"Tech-speak" can be mildly confusing for us who may not fully always appreciate the very narrow definitions some terms in it have. I expect for some folks "lawyer-speak" is very much the same. Indeed I fully agree that ensuring that using the extension on massively edited pages is something that works fine, is entirely prudent; whereas ensuring perfect functionality for the full force of the extension for application on all English wikipedia pages, is probably less so. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
