[WikiEN-l] article length: =<32Kb?

Sun Feb 27 14:57:17 UTC 2005

It is the section editing that ended the technical need to limit an article
to 32K using Internet Explorer. Now unless it is the first section you need
to edit you don't need to edit the whole article or change browsers. I have
no idea why you can't edit the first section. Ability to do that should be
added.

Fred

> From: Viajero <viajero at quilombo.nl>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:52:35 +0100
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] article length: =<32Kb?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Perhaps I have been out of the loop on this development, but when I
> started contributing to WP, limiting article length to 32Kb was
> considered an important consideration. Lately, though, I've been
> encountering articles considerably longer. Yesterday, I wanted to
> refactor some material in one to tighten it up and another user
> objected, saying that [[George W. Bush]] was 72Kb in length. Has the
> 32Kb threshold effectively been abandoned?
> 
> FWIW, I thought the 32Kb limit served as a useful stylistic constraint,
> as it encouraged a a measure concision in unwieldy topics. I am going to
> take a look at the Bush article in a moment to see what I think of such
> a long article.
> 
> 
> V.
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