User talk:CalendulaAsteraceae

Issue with Module:Bicolor, Template:Bicolor9, and similar templates

I've noticed an issue with {{Bicolor9}}, {{Bcolor Y}}, {{Bicolor X}}, {{Bicolor2}}, and {{Bicolor3}}.

On those templates' pages, the documentation subpage won't appear properly. The post-expand include size is also large enough that each of those templates is listed in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded:

• {{Bicolor2}}: 2,057,889/2,097,152 bytes
• {{Bicolor3}}: 2,037,777/2,097,152 bytes
• {{Bicolor9}}: 1,711,055/2,097,152 bytes
• {{Bicolor X}}: 1,688,286/2,097,152 bytes
• {{Bcolor Y}}: 1,837,733/2,097,152 bytes

My guess is that this results from a case of too many non-rendered tranclusions. Curiously, none of the issues happen with {{Bicolor4}} (which doesn't have a documentation subpage), even though it also uses the new parameters you added to Module:Bicolor for {{Bicolor}} to use. Might it be from not using {{TemplateBox}} in each documentation subpage? Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 20:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Oof, yeah. IIRC this is because the template is including all the color combinations and then hiding the ones that don't have corresponding categories, which is, it turns out, a lot of combinations. This is arguably an improvement on the previous code where it was calling ifexist on every category (and putting pages in Category:Pages with script errors thereby) but, you know, only arguably. Ideally I'd like to add some sort of filter to Module:Bicolor for which categories exist which is less expensive than ifexist (get a list of all a category's subcategories?), but I'm not really sure how one would do that. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:31, 29 February 2024 (UTC)