Template talk:Section length

Substability

Not currently substable, but needs to be so we can take a snapshot in time of the length of a section. Should not be force-subst, though, because we want the ability for it to be dynamic as well; so should end up as, "may be substituted" but we are not there yet. Mathglot (talk) 05:33, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Preview of a use case

This should ultimately be generated with a for loop and a row iterator for a fuller version, but here's a hard-coded version, to give an idea of the possibilities with this template:

Comparison of seven sections commonly found in country articles:

Section ⟶ ↓ Country	Lead	History	Geography	Government and politics	Economy	Demographics	Culture
Austria 175,901	10.04%% / 17,652	26.77%% / 47,089	7.10%% / 12,496	15.60%% / 27,440	6.29%% / 11,059	18.02%% / 31,704	12.05%% / 21,191
Belgium 218,374	11.98%% / 26,163	10.95%% / 23,910	8.97%% / 19,589	19.81%% / 43,269	12.23%% / 26,716	16.41%% / 35,846	14.98%% / 32,714
Denmark 238,610	7.60%% / 18,139	13.21%% / 31,510	10.99%% / 26,223	% /	16.01%% / 38,200	16.89%% / 40,291	18.08%% / 43,130
France 281,450	6.70%% / 18,860	19.08%% / 53,713	7.30%% / 20,541	15.85%% /44,623	12.74%% / 35,861	15.50%% / 43,612	20.10%% / 56,567

An extended version of this table is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries/Common section size (slow to load).

Note that the Government and politics section is not always called that, in particular, in Belgium and France it is not. This uses about 1% of PEIS (negligible) and 1.184 sec. of CPU usage. A page with six such tables rendered, but failed on the seventh. With six tables, it uses negligible PEIS, and 8.091 CPU seconds, for 14 module invocations per row, times 24 rows, or 336 invocations. Mathglot (talk) 08:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Have removed from article space.

I assume this is meant for talk pages? Just seen these a few times being added to the actual article. Should we not explain where it's usage to be.... or my mistaken? Moxy🍁 21:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)