Not only that, but we'd also have to exclude reverts. If someone replaces
an article with "LULZ I HAX WIKI", and I revert that, the software will see
me as "adding" all the text that was previously there, but of course I
didn't in any reasonable sense actually do that.
Todd
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019
Dear Haifeng Zhang,
If I were you, looking at this, I'd watch out for templates. Templates
particularly substituted ones involve a lot of bytes that someone hasn't
typed. I recently did an edit that involved me typing {{subst|Infobox
academic}} you might be surprised how many bytes that