Tim Starling wrote:
: VFD puts great strain on the server as it is, because the server is : forced to regularly render the whole page, consisting of a few megabytes : of HTML. If you can break it down into small sections, I think that will : be a win for performance, even if there is less opportunity for caching.
Tim, this is being bitterly resisted by VFD habitues on VFD talk. Please stop by and give numbers if needed to convince:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion#Can_we_please...
Jamesday may also care to weigh in - VFD is composed of metatemplates, which are a known noxious entity.
Please let them know that insisting their 1.5 megabyte page be the *default* deletion portal is actually a bad idea.
- d.
David Gerard (fun@thingy.apana.org.au) [050507 05:04]:
Tim, this is being bitterly resisted by VFD habitues on VFD talk. Please stop by and give numbers if needed to convince: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion#Can_we_please... Jamesday may also care to weigh in - VFD is composed of metatemplates, which are a known noxious entity. Please let them know that insisting their 1.5 megabyte page be the *default* deletion portal is actually a bad idea.
[[:en:User:jguk]] has boldly made a shorter and saner page. The original longform page is at [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (long form)]] (shortcut [[WP:VFDL]]) for those who insist they can't live without it. 'Cos you just know they'd recreate it in their own user space if it was taken away.
Weighing in may still be needed. Also, the change probably breaks AllyUnion's VFDbot, so we'll see what happens when that swings by at midnight ...
(Longer-term possible fixes: make templates in templates stop working.)
- d.
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