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Category talk:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls

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Is this an automatically assigned category?516:38, 26 March 2016

Is this an automatically assigned category?

This seems to be in conjuction with too many Template:SkillNav templates used on one page. Should we ignore it?

15:11, 24 March 2016

Yes. According to Wikipedia, these are one of the few categories that are automatically generated. We can add hidden category to this to prevent it form showing up in other pages.

17:33, 24 March 2016

I don't think hiding the category is a good idea since it's an indicator that something may not work the way it's supposed to be.

The culprit isn't SkillNav, but IconLink. If you set a second parameter, the template uses ifexist (which is the expensive parser function in this case) to check if a file exists on the wiki. For example, using {{IconLink|Tiger Flash|Male}} checks if File:Tiger Flash (Male).png exists on the wiki and display it if it exists, but if not it just uses File:Tiger Flash.png instead. Now, the problem is that you may only use 100 expensive parser calls per page, so if you used all up it will automatically assume that the file doesn't exist and display the wrong file instead, e.g. File:Tiger Flash.png instead of File:Tiger Flash (Male).png.

Someone who's familiar with where and to what extend IconLink is used should remove ifexist from the template and use a different method (like SMW properties) instead.

15:12, 25 March 2016

Ahhh. I see. I'll keep that mind. Thanks!

Since some of the skill pages have the correct SMW icon properties, we should look into that.

21:51, 25 March 2016
 

I assume this is also why there are hundreds of missing skill icon files in the wanted pages list? Sadly I am not familiar with the template syntax, so I'll leave it to others for now.

08:32, 26 March 2016

Yes. If the file doesn't exist, it's added to Special:WantedPages.

16:38, 26 March 2016