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)[reply]

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 185,332	10.42%% / 19,305	24.85%% / 46,052	6.95%% / 12,885	16.06%% / 29,773	6.11%% / 11,319	20.56%% / 38,098	11.20%% / 20,766
Belgium 216,340	14.30%% / 30,942	9.12%% / 19,734	8.41%% / 18,201	19.38%% / 41,927	11.97%% / 25,893	16.88%% / 36,510	15.20%% / 32,881
Denmark 229,865	7.67%% / 17,632	10.78%% / 24,788	10.90%% / 25,062	14.26%% / 32,779	16.58%% / 38,113	17.77%% / 40,855	18.47%% / 42,448
France 280,237	7.13%% / 19,993	17.72%% / 49,651	6.46%% / 18,091	16.46%% /46,135	14.54%% / 40,757	15.50%% / 43,442	19.47%% / 54,571

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)[reply]