Organizers, their sponsors and partners want to know how much work was done during an event. "Bytes changed" has been a metric for this, but it is imperfect in many ways. "Words added" would be a way to judge how much writing was accomplished, but this metric is problematic.
The task here is to figure out how to include a figure for Words Added in (to begin with) the Event Summary (T205561) and Pages Created (T205363) reports.
- **Event Summary:** here, the metric would count all words added during the event.
- **Pages Created**: this report is a list of articles creates, so the metric would be a count of how many words were added to each article.
=Caveats and limitations
**Where possible: **it's understood that determining what is and isn't a "word" is harder in some scripts than others. The first release of this will be for those scripts where we have relative confidence. For other scripts, we will fill these fields with an "n/a," to signify "not available."
**Standard definitions:** I imagine there are various techniques for defining and deriving what is a "word." Any standard definition is acceptable, so long as it doesn't include wikitext codes in the count.