Template talk:Recent changes article requests

Template:Recent changes article requests/6

This is dumb. 1234 ~ 19:08, 28 October 2011

Blame Wikipedia. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 19:17, 28 October 2011

We can do this better

I wrote a drop-in replacement for displaying the full list of requests.

MadMax used Template:Recent changes article requests/full to call each argument of Template:Recent changes article requests/list in turn. An average of three runs clocked at 4.169 seconds real-time usage. I copy-pasted the list and grepped 799 non-empty lines.

My method retrieves the list with {{msgnw:Recent changes article requests/list}} via a lightweight Lua module and replaces pipes with bullets. An average of three runs clocked at 0.302 seconds real-time usage. I copy-pasted the list and grepped 1398 non-empty lines.

I hope to make similar improvements with the article request selections, as that would speed up the loading of Special:RecentChanges. Dark Web, White Hat (talk) 12:47, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Or you might instead ditch them, as most people visiting RecentChanges want to see, well, recent changes, not an advertisement that they write an article off someone else's to-do list. Spıke 🎙️15:46 14-Dec-21