Wikitravel-style guides get written twice. Someone who does not know
wikitext contributes the information:
Wonderful Hotel, +15555550123
and someone who does comes along later and polishes it:
{{listing|name=Wonderful Hotel|phone=+15555550123}}
Both carry the same information. The second adds two dozen characters of
markup around it. --content-sizes measures that split, emitting two
nullable int64 columns from a single mwparserfromhell tree walk per
revision.
content_chars counts what a contributor who did not know wikitext would
have typed: text nodes, template parameter values, tag contents,
wikilink labels (or targets when unlabeled), external link URLs and
their labels, and heading titles. markup_chars is everything else --
braces, pipes, parameter names, tag names and attributes, link targets,
quote marks, and comments, which never reach a reader.
The two columns sum to the revision length, so their ratio reads
directly as how much of a revision is formatting. That invariant is what
the end-to-end test checks on a real dump, along with nulls for deleted
revisions, which come through the same machinery as the other
parser-based columns.
Emphasis needs no special handling: mwparserfromhell represents ''' and
'' as b and i tags, so the quote marks fall out as markup and the words
they wrap as content, which is the wanted answer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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