Wikipedia:Peak usage

Peak editors is the concept of the most or too many Wikipedians, and accompanying practices or policies.

The idea of too many Wikipedians may be thought of in one or more supporting or conflicting ways:

• The way in which editorial popularity, and speed of its growth, affects encyclopedic quality
• The physical limits of the Wikipedia technology to handle edits and editing (by implication, editors). Editing may increase dramatically during events such as holiday weekends.
• The effects of stress and editing on Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers, and how these effect newcomers and old-timers
• etc. For example Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 70#Retaining editors: limited amnesty?.

We could deal with any, all, or no problems as always through a variety of ways:

• Increasing hardware
• Decreasing using/editing
• Increasing policies
• Decreasing policies
• Etc.

Wikipedia:Thank rather than criticize would be a basic concept required and intended to promote civility and prevent non-hardware peak editing problems.