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PageDiffSize

Questions answered by this recipe

• How can I automatically add an accurate indication of the size of an edit to its summary?

Description

PageDiffSize adds a count of the characters added and/or removed during a page edit to the edit's change summary that's displayed in the page's history as well as on RecentChanges pages. As an edit can contain both insertions and deletions of text as changes are made, the added count can contain two numbers, as in "+35/-15".

For the most accurate count, PageDiffSize can make use of the Text_Diff package included by the cookbook recipe InlineDiff. If InlineDiff isn't present, PageDiffSize defaults to a simpler change counter that will overcount if multiple changes are made to a single paragrph.

To install this recipe

• Download pagediffsize.phpΔ to your cookbook directory
• add the following line to your configuration file:
  if ($action=='edit') include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/pagediffsize.php");

Notes

You can customize the output of PageDiffSize by setting the value of $PageDiffSizeFmt; see the source code for the formatting.

This recipe was inspired in part by DeltaBytesRecentChanges, which does a very similar job but only compares the raw difference in length of the page text before and after an edit. The sum of PageDiffSize's counts should be equal to the difference reported by DeltaBytesRecentChanges.

Release Notes

• 2009-06-09Δ - first release

See Also

• Cookbook.DeltaBytesRecentChanges Display the number of bytes (characters) added or deleted to a page in RecentChanges.
• Cookbook.InlineDiff Shows the difference between 2 versions by highlighting the changes in markup on word level.

Contributors

• EemeliAro

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