On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I'm considering introducing a limit on #switch cases of 2000 or so per article, to address this issue. No doubt many templates will break, but it's important to protect our servers, and we've always discouraged this kind of #switch application.
As a Wikipedian, I would be very happy to see a limitation imposed like this. I think the silent majority of editors who want to see pages load and save quickly/reliably outweighs the need for unlimited use of a very complicated parser functions structure.
Steven