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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see any logical way to count all words in a whole eportfolio but
an eportfolio page could be done, as could a collection of pages.

But as a page is made up of a number of different blocktypes this would
not be a simple feature to add.

I believe what would be needed logic wise would be:

1) Each blocktype have a function allow_wordcount() which would return
true/false for whether to count this block in the page's word count as
some blocks would not make sense to do word count like an image block,
gallery block or external feed block (as the words are not the user's
words but text from a third party).

2) For those blocktypes that have allow_wordcount() return true they
would call anther function get_wordcount() to do the logic  to count the
words and return the number. The problem here is what count as words and
what do not, does html markup count/not count? If a block is used on
multiple pages like some text boxes can be do we count it once or for
each time it appears?

3) So then the page (or collection of pages) would need to loop through
all the blocks that are used to return the running total and display it
somewhere useful.

4) And possibly use this information on the admin statistics pages.

So it does sound a good idea - but will need some more thinking about to
get a working concept.

I will mark as a wishlist item.

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1344000

Title:
  Word count feature

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please could a word count feature be developed for single ePortfolio
  pages or additionally total number of words in a whole ePortfolio.

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