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==Bit counts==
On [[WP:aotw]], they have a list of past winners, with "Article Foo increased from X bits to Y bits".  How do you get the count of bits? [[User:Meelar|[[User:Meelar|Meelar]] [[User talk:Meelar|(talk)]]]] 20:14, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:[[Wikipedia:Article of the week/History]] shows increases in bytes for me. Given that en is using [[ISO 8859-1]], byte count is equivalent to character count. It's not hard to count characters, but I don't know that there's a way to get Mediawiki to give you the count for an arbitrary article. They do show up on [[Special:New pages|New pages]], [[Special:Short pages|Short pages]], and [[Special:Long pages|Long pages]]. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|✎]] 20:37, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::When I counted the bytes, I used [[Wc (Unix utility)|wc]] (word count) which gives line, word and character count. I agree that a size display in the history would be interesting, but I accept that it's not top priority. [[User:Sverdrup|<span style=" font-family: Optima, sans-serif; border-bottom: 1px solid blue;">[[User:Sverdrup|❝'''S'''verdrup❞]]</span>]] 01:53, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)