User talk:Alphax/20050427-02

Your sig (reply →)

OK, your sig was {{User:SebastianHelm/sig}}. This had in turn {{User:SebastianHelm/sig0}} and {{User:SebastianHelm/sig0t}} in it. Three templates for 1 sig! Big big server load. The markup it produces is Sebastian (T) with small gray text following. Now copy that into your signature (minus the small gray text, which could be page breaking if not closed). HTH, Alphax ^τεχ 14:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also, for the coloured stuff: "ff0000" == "#f00", "ff8800" == "#f80" etc. Since your colours are all in the form "aabbcc", you can replace them with "#abc". Alphax ^τεχ 14:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• "#abc": Not really. See Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archive_17#Background_Colours_in_Tables

  Ah, ok then. If only this allowed bbcode it would be small indeed. [c=#ff00cc]Wooo![/c]

• This template on which we're writing: It's really a neat idea – i always found the situation unsatisfactory that you never know on whose talk page a talk takes place. But are you aware of the irony? You just added a big (and growing), variable, multi-level template to two talk pages in order to convince me that i shouldn't add smaller, constant, 2-level templates to talk pages.

  I've currently got one placed on 3 people's talk pages (I started talking with someone, and another person joined the discussion). But the thing is, this will only be included in a few pages, which a sig template could be included in hundreds of Talk:, User_talk: and Wikipedia: namespace pages. It's like Votes for Deletion - many many subpages.

• "HTH": I believe that you sincerely wanted to help somehow, but i'm afraid i don't see anything helpful in that paragraph. My question was not "How is my template constructed". I constructed my template myself – so i don't need you to tell me the gory details. My question was: "Can anyone provide some numbers?" By "numbers", i did not mean how often you say "big". If you have any information that would allow me and others a sober assessment, please post it under templates in sigs. Thanks, Sebastian (talk) 05:40, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

  Sorry, don't know the actual resource drain; I believe it would be a (few?) extra SQL queries per page the sig was placed on. You could keep your old sig by just copying the wikitext, and using a raw signature (which I guess you were doing anyway). Anyway, back to other things. Alphax ^τεχ 06:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)