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Watchlist byte count calculation is wrong
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Just noticed on English Wikipedia that a page I am watching has 5 changes today, with an overall byte count of -2389 but individual byte counts of 265, 265, 286, 209 and 625. These obviously don't add up! Note that I'm using the option to group edits to a single article.

If I can figure out how to upload an image, I'll add a screen grab of the relevant portion of my watchlist.

No idea what might cause this or how to reproduce it, sorry.

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@GoldenRing: Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Could you please provide steps to reproduce the problem? "a page" is not specific enough if a developer wants to find a testcase to reproduce. :) Thanks!

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See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gamaliel&action=history - there is an edit bot which is not shown in your view.

Assuming that you have enabled "Hide bot edits from the watchlist" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist I'm going to close this task as invalid.