On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Brian<brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> However,
>> given the nastiness of template syntax, I would expect no end of wiki
>> authors willing to help convert the commonly used stuff.
>>
>> -Robert Rohde
>
> I was curious just how terrible of a task conversion can be expected
> to be. This is just a heuristic I came up with..
>
> # Simple English parser functions
> $ bunzip2 -c simplewiki-20090623-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | grep -o '{{#' | wc
> -l
> 22,211
>
> # Simple English templates
> $ bunzip2 -c simplewiki-20090623-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | grep -o '{{' | wc -l
> 416,126 - 22,211 = 393,915
>
> # English parser functions
> $ bunzip2 -c enwiki-20090618-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | grep -o '{{#' | wc -l
> 430,980
>
> # English templates
> $ bunzip2 -c enwiki-20090618-pages-articles.xml.bz2 | grep -o '{{' | wc -l
> 44,928,358 - 430,980 = 44,497,378
I assume we are primarily talking about replacing template code and
not template calls, per se.
In other words, I assume things like "{{fact}}" and "{{msg | foo is
bar }}" will be be basically unchanged on the article side but
rewritten on the implementation side in Template: space. If that is
correct, it would be more useful to simply ask how large Template:
space is rather than counting all the template calls.
-Robert Rohde
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