On 2/6/08, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
The recentchanges table (used for Special:Recentchanges, watchlists etc) stores both the old and new page size, but the revision table (used for history pages and for Special:Contributions) only stores the new page size, so you can't calculate the change unless you look up the previous revision too. This would make Special:Contributions pretty expensive to run, so I doubt it's feasible.
On 2/6/08, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
If it's your bot, presumably you could get it to do a diff between the before and after of its change, and write that to a log somewhere...?
Could log it at the end of the bot's edit summary, then it would appear in Special:Contributions where Andre wants it. ;-)
—C.W.