Reading budgets
how long a page may be
A wiki has three limits, counted in words: one for a page, one for an intent, and one for the goals page
that collects every intent.[1] A project can set its own under [budget] in wiki.toml, and
each must be a positive whole number.[2]
Counting
A page is counted from its markdown, leaving out its references and code blocks, so citing costs nothing and a sample to copy, such as a prompt, costs nothing either.[3] Words are split on spaces, so a table's borders count as words too.[3]
The goals page is not held to the page limit.[4] What it collects is measured against the goals limit instead.[4]
Enforcement
A page over its limit is listed by the check.[5] An intent over its limit stops the build before anything else is checked.[6] Every build and every check prints each page's word count.[7]
Calibration
Until [budget] in wiki.toml sets calibrated = true, every build and check warns that the numbers are
a guess that happens to be enforced.[8] What a project's readers will read is unknown until it is
measured.[8]