r/wikipedia • u/Free-Membership93 • 1d ago

Question about the revision log thing.

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I'm new to Wikipedia editing (started today) and I get the idea of everything and I'm enjoying it but I don't know what this means.

What do the green and red numbers mean?

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u/CopperyMarrow15 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those numbers represent how many characters of wikitext the revision has, compared to the previous revision.

For example, if you add a comma to an article, your revision will appear on that list with the number "+1" in green because you added 1 character.

See here for more information.

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u/echetus90 1d ago

Green is positive and red is negative, just so you don't have to check if there is a little - there or not

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u/Comfortable-Table-57 1d ago

Green is how many words and letters were made in that edit. Red is the amount removed or reverted. 

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u/CBWeather 19h ago

Characters rather than letters or numbers. Making a link out of some word by adding [[]] will get +4.