[WikiEN-l] Re: Evidence as to VFD being unusably big

Sun Mar 6 12:14:03 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

> I just saved [[WP:VFD]] as of a few minutes ago. The HTML alone is 
> 1,324,734
> bytes. The associated files are 28,964 bytes.
> 
> I have a Pentium II 450MHz with 768MB memory running Netscape 7.2. It takes
> a minute or two just for the page to render.
> 
> So to vote on VFD, you must have a broadband connection - anyone on dialup
> is pretty much barred - and preferably be browsing with an Athlon 64. Or
> maybe a Cray.
> 
> Here's one suggestion: make the main VFD page just links to the day pages,
> rather than transcluding every one of them.
> 
> 
> - d.

Has splitting VfD by subject area also been proposed?