Forum:Template limit needs increasing

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I should probably know how to do this, but I don't. Basically, the template limit on Mad_Libs/examples is running out somewhere halfway down the page. So, uh, someone who's more savvy than me, please increase it. Thanks. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 19:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

This is a MediaWiki limit, so I don't think this is possible. From User talk:Dr. Skullthumper/Archive 5#Experiment:

“If you really want to know, there is a limit of 2,097,152 bytes of templates for both before and after they've been expanded, and a limit of 2,097,152 bytes for template arguments. And after that limit it stops processing the templates.”

~ Spang on Template processing

So, yeah, I don't think it's possible. Then again, I might be hopelessly wrong. ―― Sir Heerenveen, KUN [UotM RotM VFH FFS SK CM NS OME™] (talk), 28/06 20:02

FU Spang. --Sir Starnestommy (Talk • Contribs • CUN) 22:03, Jun. 28, 2008

Yeah, the problem here is templates with too many options in their chooses. The main offenders on the page were {{name}} and {{given name}}, which someone had filled up with thousands of names, so they were 70kb and 180kb each. Include a few of those and you quickly hit the 2mb limit. I reverted them back to when they were much smaller and it seems to have fixed it for the most part, though it still runs out somewhere near the end.

It might be possible to use that many options in a template by splitting each on up into a few sub-templates, like {{name}} would have <choose><option>{{name/a-c}}</option><option>{{name/d-f}}</option>...</choose>. Not sure if that would fool it or not though, and would probably make the template load a bit slower. And now for no particular reason, the 10 largest templates. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 17:02, 29 Jun 2008

Or, we could replace some of the {{name}}s with /a-c, some with /d-f, etc.~~ Sir Ljlego, GUN  [talk] 17:08, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Largest 10 templates:	Largest 10 Mad Libs templates:
*Template:Cabbage (193862 bytes) Template:CABBAGE (193825 bytes) Template:DYCdb (91525 bytes) Template:Reqaward/rawlist (81417 bytes) Template:RandomVandal (68964 bytes) Template:Surname/S (43330 bytes) Template:Did You Know (42206 bytes) Template:Surname/Ma (38947 bytes) Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists (38746 bytes) Template:Surname/H (38534 bytes)	User:Un-PENIS/Template:Name (78808 bytes) Template:Expletive (31730 bytes) Template:Monster (28847 bytes) Template:Monster definite (21145 bytes) Template:Random ethnicity/Amerindian (20016 bytes) Template:Noun (19024 bytes) Template:Object (15409 bytes) User:Micoolio101/Expletive-large (10006 bytes) Template:Random/killed (9696 bytes) Template:Name/nolink (9525 bytes)

Go cabbage template! Woo! Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 08:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)