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	Sep 17 2010, 2:59 AM

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Author: jasonspiro4

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Hi. In page history screens and Recent Changes, please display revision length in characters, not bytes.

Ariel T. Glenn writes, "I would love [this]. [This would be] more meaningful for almost every project. Readers are looking at text after all, not at raw strings."[1]

Aryeh Gregor writes that it would prevent some users from becoming needlessly confused. "I imagine Chinese people are puzzled when RC reports +3 and there was only one character added."[2]

^ [1]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/48841/focus=48966
^ [2]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/48841/focus=48965

Version: 1.24rc
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz25198

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 11:20 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.

• bzimport set Reference to bz25198.

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• bzimport created this task.Sep 17 2010, 2:59 AM

Being this a request that I have seen commented here and there, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a duplicate of another report, more popular.

Marking as Lowest, since nobody seems to be working or planning to work on this currently.

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This is not something the Growth-Team plans to work on in the short-to-medium term. If someone wanted to work on this, a user preference might make sense. Some more detailed notes about how this could work would probably be a good idea before any code is written.

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Aklapper edited projects, added MediaWiki-Page-history; removed MediaWiki-Page-diffs.Sep 20 2019, 7:42 PM

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