Talk:Opinion polling for the April 2019 Israeli legislative election

Page size

This page currently has 469,071 bytes of wiki-code; and s the largest on Wikipedia. What's the best way to split it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Scenario polls are the easiest to split. Flayer (talk) 19:13, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

I think it might be because of the referencing format. Other polling pages like Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election use direct links to each poll instead of footnotes. M . M 19:41, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Edit: Nvm, that doesn't make any net change of bytes (Opinion polling for the 2018 Italian general election is the third-largest site, and it uses the above format). Still though, it might reduce scrolling. M . M 19:46, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Around a quarter of the byte size is due to the comments alone – they really aren't necessary and can/should be removed (and also don't contribute to the rendered page size, btw, where they're not actually retained). Mélencron (talk) 20:08, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Nonetheless, the rendered page is is currently 474.5 KB [1]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:57, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

The comments are necessary for code readability. It is very difficult to add or fix polls without the comments. However, I tried to replace the spaces with tabs in the latest poll, and it saved me ~900 B. This article includes hundreds of polls, so we can save some hundreds KB this way. Take a look at my edit and let me know what you think. ערן117 (talk) 08:15, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

I think it's good. M . M 11:02, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

I don't think the page size is currently an issue, but if it is, than the Preferred Prime Minister polls are irrelevant to Israeli elections completely. ShimonChai (talk) 14:22, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Half the rendered size is just wikipedia headers and side bars (see this stub for example). Either way, thank you ערן117 for trimming it by ~30%. Hydromania (talk) 18:23, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome, and it's ~40% now that I'm done. :D This page no longer in the top 50, I hope it's no longer necessary to split it. ערן117 (talk) 07:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks to 117 for the effort. I had another idea, although it is now too late to implement. Last month, on my Sandbox, I replaced the publishers' names with abbreviations ("12" for Channel 12, JP for Jerusalem Post, etc.), and put them on a separate column. This saves a lot of space both in the wikicode and in the visual result, as it makes all rows equal in height. You can see the result here. However, it would have been opposed by enough contributors, each for his own peculiar reasons. Maybe for the 21st Knesset. Kahlores (talk) 22:39, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

It's difficult to figure out some of the initials. It also does not make all rows equal in height, look at polls by Panel HaMidgam Project. How much space did this save anyway? ערן117 (talk) 07:45, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Student polls

@VwM.Mwv: I don't think the section should be added. On the main page yes, but this doesn't quite make the cut as a poll. Not to mention the wording as is sounds like it was a poll conducted by students as opposed to a survey of college voters. (As an aside, I understand you are excited about zehut, but do you really think Blue and white will get 47 seats?) Hydromania (talk) 23:08, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

I've added a clarifying note now. But what do you mean by "main page"? Do you mean the 2019 Israeli legislative election? (Idk, I just think it's pretty impressive that Zehut managed to score 2nd place despite how dominant the Left is in Israeli state schools.) M . M 08:44, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes I meant the 2019 Israeli legislative election page. It is impressive but in a broader context not really belonging on the page of regular tv opinion polling. Hydromania (talk) 11:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Exit Polls

Hello again. Today I want to talk about the exit polls section of the graph. Now that the election is over, we should clean up this section. I find the fact that we have the 10th of April updates kind of confusing. I would be in favor of reducing this section down to the first exit polls by the 3 main tv channels. These are the exit polls Israeli society takes seriously (the Ynet and i24 ones were held through the internet, dubious means compared to the others) and these are the exit polls shown in the 2013 and 2015 pages.Gibzit (talk) 22:35, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree. Ynet and i24 should not even be called exit polls, they are just polls. Flayer (talk) 04:46, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

The next elecion

There's problem getting aa new talk page. What do we do?Arglebargle79 (talk) 13:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)