Thread:Grunny/@comment-6721631-20140320180138/@comment-11536-20140323102839

Hi,

Yeah, basically, DPL was being used to load the content of the individual comic pages to get that information. This information was static (release dates, comic titles, etc.), so didn't need to be loaded dynamically, and doing this hundreds of times per page is slow. By simplifying it as I did, we've seen an 80% improvement in parse time for those pages. :)

As to having just one template, that would work, but I wasn't really sure why there were some comic pages that should display the info in Cis, and some that should only show what's in the Cid template. Since I'm not an editor on the wikia, I wanted to minimise any impact of my changes, so just left them as separate templates. If the community decides to just have one template, that's easy to do.

I am going to run a script to convert most of the Volume pages over to these templates, but just started with the slowest pages that use these templates the most to verify the performance improvement. So, I'll soon be running a script in batches to go through all the nearly 4,000 pages in Category:Comic List to convert most of them. For most of the pages, there's only a few uses of those templates, so it doesn't really matter to much if they still use the DPL versions, but the ones that use it a lot needed to be done first. Thanks for the offer to help! But, like I said, I'm going to run a script that will automate the conversion, so will save everyone the time of having to do it manually. :)