Last modified: 2011-03-15 17:33:46 UTC
Dear Sirs at Bugzilla In our watchlists (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist), the red/green color of the change in bytes to articles gives a good hunch of the nature of the edits. In article histories (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=42_%28number%29&action=history) the total size of the article at that point is given instead. I think it would be just as useful having those numbers in article histories in red/green color as well. It would make it easier to spot, for example, vandals deleting large sections of articles. I suggested this at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Red/Green_coloring_of_article_size_numbers_in_article_histories and got the advice to send it to here. Best regards Mikael Häggström
*** Bug 23788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I previously added bug 23788 for an almost identical request: Revision size and revision bytes change are _both_ extremely useful, giving a good "quick idea" of a page's history or a user's pattern of contributing, especially on talk pages where size change helps to visually identify reductions in page size, often signs of vandalism, removal of comments, archiving, etc which are of interest. I'd like to see page size as SIZE bytes (+/-CHANGE) on both contribs and history. A revision that is 10000 bytes in size and a reduction of 100 bytes from the previous revision would be shown as 10000 bytes (-100) with the -100 in bold red for visual ease. Also some kind of higher visibility tag, like a symbol next to the byte field, for larger additions/removals (say > 400 bytes?). It can be useful to quickly see the key points in a talk or project page history where significant additions or removals happened, and in a user's contributions which edits were of that kind.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25199 ***
This feature is available if going to your Preferences, and, in the section "User interface gadgets", activating "HistoryNumDiff shows the number of characters added or removed, rather than the size of the revision." However, I'd still like to have the option to see BOTH the size and the difference.
