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 182,863	10.05%% / 18,378	25.15%% / 45,984	6.58%% / 12,037	16.07%% / 29,395	6.06%% / 11,077	20.83%% / 38,097	11.35%% / 20,761
Belgium 213,599	14.31%% / 30,558	9.24%% / 19,733	7.39%% / 15,789	19.63%% / 41,926	12.15%% / 25,949	17.09%% / 36,511	15.39%% / 32,881
Denmark 229,297	7.62%% / 17,470	10.82%% / 24,803	10.92%% / 25,050	14.14%% / 32,421	16.65%% / 38,177	17.76%% / 40,718	18.53%% / 42,480
France 278,345	7.42%% / 20,641	17.61%% / 49,010	6.35%% / 17,662	16.66%% /46,365	14.58%% / 40,569	15.06%% / 41,917	19.61%% / 54,570

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]