User blog:Wolf, the Hunter/Comment Archives

Okay, the reason I'm making this blog is rather simple. I've been listening to people complain about page lags for the last half year or so, due to pages having too many comments. I've got a solution (somewhat) for this.

While the coding on the pages also gives lag at times it is, by far, the comments who are the worst offenders in this department.

Bach and I were talking earlier, after it became obvious that I would get admin rights. She asked me (since I'm an rp'er who are very active) if I could delete any comments with red links or wrong templates in the entire thread, or the ones saying ignore, to reduce the lag a bit. I asked if we couldn't take it the step further and move all the comments to another page. The first solution I came up with had been tried, and had been found not to work.

The second idea I came up with, however, is the one I'm about to explain, since it's one that will work, but will take a damned long time for me to execute alone.

The idea in itself is rather simple. A person with admin rights copy paste a comment onto an archive, and then delete it. The catch is, that for me to do that alone would take weeks of work, if not more, considering how many location pages we have, with quite many comments each.

I have spent a few hours on this by now, trying a few different ways to do it, and finding the simplest, working way.

Forum:Archived comments/Zeus' Cabin

And there you have it. The first (if not finished yet) archive. This is my idea to reducing the lag on pages, and making it quicker to load/reload pages, a thing I've heard people complaining about hundreds of times.

However, as mentioned earlier, while I could do this alone, it would be a long time before I'm able to finish it, much more so since people comment on the pages everyday. So, I'm asking the other admins to help me help you.

The method of doing it is rather simple: If you have questions, put them in the comments.
 * 1) You choose the page you'll be doing
 * 2) You check if there is already an archive page for that page, and if not you make one (See Forum:Roleplay)
 * 3) You find an rp on the page, make a new title with the people involved (Ie. ==Zeke/Sarah== ))
 * 4) You use the Quote template
 * 5) You write "{{Quote|"
 * 6) Then you go to the page you want to copy from, and presses the edit button, then you copy the source code of that
 * 7) The source code goes after the "{{Quote|" so it's like this "{{Quote|Source code|"
 * 8) You place a link to the writer of the comment after the source code, so it should be like this " {{Quote|Source code|User: }} "
 * 9) In the end it should look something like this {{Quote|{{LG|20:08, April 14, 2012 (UTC)|"This is the right way it should be done."}}|User:Black Wolf of blood}}
 * 10) Repeat that until you have all the comments in the thread, then delete it and move on to the next.