Nintendo Wiki:Article size: Difference between revisions
clairty
(Created page with "'''Article size''' can be measured in bytes. The article size can be viewed in "Page information" at left. The device's processing and the internet connection depend on article size. {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan=2 | Article size (bytes) ! rowspan=2 | What to do ! colspan=4 | Time taken to load content (s) |- ! Ethernet (100 Mbps) ! 4G (15 Mbps) ! 3G (1 Mbps) ! Dial-up (56 kbps) |- | >250,000 | Place a notice reminding that the article is too large. Consider spliting...") |
(clairty) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 48:
| <0.3
|}
Pages have a limit of 2,097,152 bytes (2 MB), as defined by MediaWiki software.
== Splitting articles ==
Articles that become too long should either be trimmed or split into multiple, smaller articles (refer to the table above). The reasoning behind this is to increase the readability and reduce the load time for any given article.
=== Lists ===
List pages tend to be relatively straightforward to split and it usually involves [[List of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door quotes by character (A–K)|subdividing a list alphabetically]] or splitting off specific [[List of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! quotes by Mario|character(s)]], [[List of Fortune Street quotes by Super Mario characters|franchise(s)]], etc. The [[List of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door quotes|original list page]] is kept and may serve as more of a directory for the partitioned pages.
=== Articles ===
Splitting an article usually involves taking a lengthy or overly-detailed section of an article and creating a new article for that topic. The section then remains on the original article, the {{tem|main}} template is used to link to the new article, and a much more top-level summary is given in that section of the original article. For example, summarizing the "History" section of [[Mario]] to give a much more top-level overview and using {{tem|main}} to link to a new page entitled [[History of Mario]].
{{Nintendo Wiki}}
{{Shortcut|NW:AS}}
[[Category:Writing guidelines]]
| |||