On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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