Thread:Randomouscrap98/@comment-14600979-20140908220614/@comment-14600979-20140909002118

Sorry... I'm so terrible. I got distracted.

I've talked to Kirby about this already, a while ago, and basically, after someone asked if there was a way for unpopular (but good) programs to be showcased or something, and I looked into it because I thought I had seen something that could. I... found /. The code I wrote (seen in the first (best) link) has been tested (with Community Central categories) and seems to work as expected. I'm pretty much ready to contact Wikia to ask for it enabled BUT there are some things you have to know:


 * First, DPL is very taxing on (blast!) processing and can cause pages to load much slower, as much 4 seconds or something longer.  This does not apply wiki-wide, the slowdown only affects the page it's being used on (in this case only the main page).  Also, It won't be used to generate long maintenance lists as it seems to be used most commonly for.  This shouldn't be (too much of?) a problem because it didn't seem to be slow at all during testing (although I also didn't do any formal timing).


 * Second, it obviously isn't perfect.  It can't look at comments to see if people don't like it, or if the page was made sloppily (well, I think it can find long/short pages), so it won't come up with "amazing gems" every time.  It is worth noting that uh... *whisperwhisper*pages created by specified users can be omitted.  Er... you'll also notice that you're excluded.  *whimper*
 * One more thing, even though I know we ain't gwine to do this:  All of the manuals say that you DEFINITELY SHOULD NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT USING IT IN TEMPLATES EVER.  ESPECIALLY INFOBOXES.