Stevertigo wrote: - --- Propose change:
:"WARNING: This page is X kilobytes long; Ideal length for articles is between 30-50K. Should this page grow longer, please consider breaking the page into smaller ctions" -[[User:Stevertigo|<strong>豎眩</Strong>]] p.s. will post to mailist..
MAV::"Ideal length" would ''not'' be in the 30 - 50 KB range. Anything above 20KB of readable text tries the patience of readers and anything above 28KB has technical limitations for users on slow computers and/or use certain browsers. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]] 00:32 Mar 7, 2003 (UTC)
SUSAN:The policy of putting new text at the bottom tries the patience of anyone with a slow computer. [[User:Susan Mason|Susan Mason]]
STEVERTIGO::Brion? on the Wikipedia-l said that 30-50 was the range... I thought it suspect at first, but Im not sure where the range really is... this was an issue on 911.wik where Martin and Elo? fought over how whether the 911 list should be broken up - I suggested why not both? If you cant deal with... you have options still, and that list can be broken up by category... this begs the question of course... lists are better dealt with by software... Either way, it seems like the warning needs some clarifying and consensus... i just signed to wiki-en - ill repost this there... -Stevertigo
"fdafd" stevertigo@attibi.com writes:
MAV::"Ideal length" would ''not'' be in the 30 - 50 KB range. Anything above 20KB of readable text tries the patience of readers and anything above 28KB has technical limitations for users on slow computers and/or use certain browsers. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]] 00:32 Mar 7, 2003 (UTC)
As long as we are speaking about plain text a length of 30-50 KB is perfectly okay; if download is slow one can start reading at the beginning of the article while the rest will follow. Adding pictures might be a problem; but if your link is limited, you can always disable image downloading.
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:06, fdafd quoted from the Village Pump:
STEVERTIGO::Brion? on the Wikipedia-l said that 30-50 was the range...
Please see my response to this gross mischaracterization of my position at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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