Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25356303-20171105225004/@comment-25356303-20171117215509

RenzXVI wrote: I honestly think only people paying for the raffle should be disqualified. Besides, people who had long been editing deserve to win too. I suppose that makes sense. If Flight, Cat, or Carlo want to enter I suppose there's no harm in that.

The Crusader of Truth wrote: Furthermore, sampling some recent uploads on the wiki, I'm not sure if we should entirely do an byte size on image uploads, as long as the images are all correct. I noticed the smallest correct image I found was only 150kb, with the largest correct one 450kb. Granted, I didn't look long, but seeing images small as 150kb still working means it's probably better if we didn't even put a limit on it. Besides, it would be extra work to check for byte size as well on images too.

I've also noticed a problem with the idea of basing edits on byte size. What if a user does an edit and it's not a positive byte size? People do edits sometimes to clean up articles. Should their work be ignored? Well what I was originally suggesting for images was not based off of their actual size (kilobytes or megabytes), just that of the licensing info (bytes). If we decide to judge images based off of any kind of size, I guess we could just take their size in KB and equate that to one byte. So a 150 KB image would be considered equal to 150 bytes of text.

As for your last thought, I still think that we should keep the focus of this raffle on expanding the size of articles, not maintenance. After all, while the work done by WikiGnomes is important, most readers come here for quest walkthroughs, lore explanations, etc., not to admire our fine infobox formatting. We definitely shouldn't subtract negative byte edits from the total, but I think it's best if we just counted increases in byte size.