Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25356303-20171105225004/@comment-25356303-20171126013744

The Crusader of Truth wrote: All sarcasm aside, I feel like even if the focus isn't on maintenance edits, what about edits that correct the information that's already there? The purpose is to add new content I suppose, but are we going to remove the bytes as a whole and not count it for people who reword articles? Reading entire articles and making sure they're correct can almost be more time consuming than just writing them.

Personally, I do enjoy staring at a perfectly formatted infobox for hours (why do you think my vision is so bad?) but there are still other negative byte-sized edits that can happen. Ignoring all of the edits wouldn't be fair. I agree, but is there a way to make this more fair? Even averaging total byte size per number of edits would keep it biased towards people who are adding content. I don't know how to make it balanced for both types of editors without undermining the purpose of the contest.

Also, I'm not particularly sure if it would be a fair to do licencing info either. It's not very hard to add in an extra row of spaces that nobody would notice, and add additional content to the file specs that wouldn't be hard to miss. I think it would be easier and better to just do images as a whole, instead of bytes. It's already going to be tedious as it is to count the bytes up on everything else. Right, I suppose it would indeed be strange to base images off of licensing info.

My suggestion above was to translate the size of the file in KB to bytes and divide by 1000. Alternatively, we could make all images equivalent to a specific byte size (100, 250, 500, whatever). The reasoning for this is that without giving some sort of boost, adding an image to an article scores you like 10 bytes, which is somewhat unfair given the amount of work needed to get it.

Regardless, I don't think the tediousness of counting the bytes is a major consideration. I can put all the values in a spreadsheet and calculate everything relatively quickly.