Wiki: Any practical objection against very long articles?

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Is it better to have an article with a long list of, say 6000, items be coded as one big wiki page, or to have it split out in 27 sub-pages, transcluded into the main page?

Is there a technical or practical reason to prefer the fragmented version over a single page?

Background

While looking at Latin words and expressions on the Gramps wiki, it appears that they are set up to split the alphabetical list of lemmas into separate pages, one per letter of the alphabet. The reason for this approach is not documented, so we can only guess at the motive.

This may have been done to make it easier for editors. Rather than editing a list of (say) 6000 lemmas, a page for (e.g.) the letter A only has 300 lemmas, making it easier to edit.

However, the ability to edit pages by section eliminates this problem.

On the face of it, it would be better to put everything into one article, with one section per letter of the alphabet. This would greatly simplify the structure of this list, and its translations.

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In my opinion, there is no practical reason to have a Latin reference on the Gramps-project wiki. Perhaps we should just limit it to the phrases and acronyms that are commonly used in the documentation? (i.e.; e.g.; sic; recte; et cetera; vice versa; ad hoc; versus; ante merdiem; post meridiem)

Besides with the LLMs being so accessible, we’re always going to be behind, playing catch up with a manually maintained page.

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No objections from me, so long as the page does not automatically appear in the following
Category:Pages_with_too_many_expensive_parser_function_calls . Then you can start splitting the page!

My thoughts are already mentioned on the bug report.

As for LLM’s they still require original source information to be trained on before they are even good at guessing!

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There’s no technical limitations on the page size, but with very long pages you tend to do a lot of scrolling. It is very much up to the editor to decide whether to have one large page or to have multiple pages covering a subject. In the User Manual we have examples of both, see Categories and Reports.
Personally I prefer large subject pages divided into smaller like the Reports pages.

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I found a handy tip to check how big a load a page is on the system. After loading the page in your browser, look at the HTML source code (“view code”). At the bottom there will be a comment block with all the statistics on page generation by the wiki.

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