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