Ahem. The revision size (and page size, meaning that of last revision) in bytes, is available in the API. If you change the definition there is no telling what you will break. Essentially you can't.
A character count would have to be another field. best, Robert On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:53 AM, ChrisiPK <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a policy requirement, not a technical requirement, and can surely be > adjusted. > > Am 03.08.2010 07:14, schrieb Liangent: >> On 8/3/10, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> No, we'd just have to repurpose rev_len to mean "characters" instead >>> of "bytes", and update all the old rows. We don't actually need the >>> byte count for anything, do we? >> >> Byte count is used. For example in Chinese Wikipedia, one of the >> criteria of "Did you know" articles is ">= 3000 bytes". >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
