Thread:Talk:Article feedback/FAQ/30 edits is a very coarse metric/reply (2)

"...weightage should be decided on the basis of the number of characters added/deleted." On the other hand, there is no guarantee that the number of characters added/deleted in wikicode will have any relation to the other measurements of the "size of the page". E.g. a page with only will be very long even if the source has only 26 characters. So the number of characters may not be a good criteria to decide which versions of an article should be considered important.

There is a script on English Wikipedia which provides some other metrics for the "size" of the pages:
 * w:User:Dr pda/prosesize