Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 8 (section)

== This page is '''n''' kylobites long ==

Hey everyone. Great to be here.

Okay. I'm working on my User page, [[User:Bobo192|Bobo192]], and I come across the note, "This page is.. approaching 32 Kb, please cut it down".

I know what some people do is move their previous work to another page so to retain their previous writings, and hyperlink to the other page. I'm just wondering how I go about doing this, hyperlinking to a page which doesn't yet exist, and creating a second page for which to write.

Or am I just being greedy..?

I know I haven't worded this as best I could, but I hope someone can help me out.

[[User:Bobo192|Bobo192]]
:What you can do, working with a <code>User:</code> page, is add '''sub-pages''' and '''transclude''' them. For example carve out your <code>13.09.2004</code> section and stick it in <code><nowiki>[[User:Bobo192/13.09.2004]]</nowiki></code>. Then add <code><nowiki>{{User:Bobo192/13.09.2004}}</nowiki></code> to your main user page at the appropriate point. Do this for each section and you're laughing, particularly since the software now allows section editing to jump '''through''' a transclusion to the correct article. HTH HAND --[[User:Phil Boswell|Phil]] | [[User talk:Phil Boswell|Talk]] 11:05, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

:The thing to remember about the 32Kb "limit" is that it's purpose is to allow people with really old browsers to still be able to edit a page (see [[Wikipedia:Page size]] and [[Wikipedia:Browser page size limits]]).  However, since it's "your" userpage, it should really only be you editing it anyway, so as long as you personally don't have any troubles editing long pages, I wouldn't worry too much about it. - 16:04, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC) [[User:ScudLee|Lee]]  [[User Talk:ScudLee|<small>(talk)</small>]]

Thank you for the advice, Lee. What I think I'll do for now is to keep it as it is, because, just like you say, I'm going to hopefully be the only one editing it. So I think I'll just keep on adding to it.

(But, having only done a diary for the last eleven days and it already being impossibly long, is rather worrying..!)

I'll give what you suggested a shot, but if I find it too tricky, I'll give up and just keep it as it is.

Thank you again.<br/>
Matt

:A personal diary is not appropriate content for a user page, see [[Wikipedia:user page]] for user page guidelines, specifically note the section ''what should I avoid?''. [[User:Paul August|Paul August]] 16:45, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)