On one of the wiki's I contribute to, there's a page that's supposed to generate random fictional countries by using other pages as source material. It makes heavy use of the listpages module, and has several tabbed dividers. As a result, the page is apparently such a resource hog that it no longer loads.
http://arcana.wikidot.com/random-nations
I'd like to trim it down significantly, and really simplify the code so that it loads again. Functionality would be a little reduced, but I could live with that. I haven't looked closely at the code of the page in months, but I'm quite confident it had more "features" than were needed, wasn't terribly efficient, and was a complicated maze of tabs. Trimming it down to 30% of it's original size should be a cake walk. If that's not enough of a reduction, I'd be happy to break it up into parts, and put them on different pages.
However, I can't edit a page that won't load in the first place. When I try to view the page, all I get is a long delay, and then eventually a blank white screen. I can't click the edit button, because there's no edit button visible to click.
If editing it is really out of the picture, I guess I'd be okay with just deleting the page, and making a new version from scratch. However, at the present moment, I can't delete it either, as I can't load the page.
Does anyone know a way to edit or delete a page that's too unwieldy to load? Edit would be far preferable.
Can you examine (and edit) the code of a page without running the modules embedded in it?
