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