Probably the fastest thing would be to manually create the <ul><li> etc and wrap them around a loop calling the linker functions (Linker::link).

https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/classLinker.html#a5...

-- brion

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@cimpress.com wrote:

I'm writing a parser function extension that outputs about 5000 lines of text (an organizational chart of a company) as a nested, bulleted list.

• Bob the CEO

** Jane Jones ** Mike Smith *** etc.

It takes about 3 seconds (real time) for MediaWiki to render this list, which is acceptable. However, if I make it a list of links, which is more useful:

• [[User:Bob | Bob the CEO]]

** [[User:Jane | Jane Jones]] ** [[User:Mike | Mike Smith]]

the rendering time more than doubles to 6-8 seconds, which users perceive as too slow.

Is there a faster implementation for rendering a large number of links, rather than returning the wikitext list and having MediaWiki render it?

Thanks, DanB

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You should be able to return something like this to make your parser function output raw HTML instead of WikiText.

return array( $output, 'noparse' => true, 'isHTML' => true );

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On 2015-01-27 1:33 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote:

I'm writing a parser function extension that outputs about 5000 lines of text (an organizational chart of a company) as a nested, bulleted list.

• Bob the CEO

** Jane Jones ** Mike Smith *** etc.

It takes about 3 seconds (real time) for MediaWiki to render this list, which is acceptable. However, if I make it a list of links, which is more useful:

• [[User:Bob | Bob the CEO]]

** [[User:Jane | Jane Jones]] ** [[User:Mike | Mike Smith]]

the rendering time more than doubles to 6-8 seconds, which users perceive as too slow.

Is there a faster implementation for rendering a large number of links, rather than returning the wikitext list and having MediaWiki render it?

Thanks, DanB

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