Wikipedia Word Counter
Count Words
in any Wikipedia article
About
This tool counts the number of prose words in a Wikipedia article. It
fetches the article HTML via the Wikipedia API and counts words found in
direct paragraph elements (<p>), excluding reference
markers, tables, infoboxes, and other non-prose content. This tool also
lets you pick a date cutoff to count words from an older revision, and
highlights the counted prose inline so you can see exactly what was
included.
The counting method is inspired by Wikipedia's own Prosesize gadget, which editors use to measure "readable prose size." The only difference is that this tool doesn't double count whitespaces. Suppose there are two spaces in a row, Prosesize will count them as 1 word, but this tool will not count them.