Count Words

About

This tool counts the number of prose words, characters, and sentences in a Wikipedia article. It fetches the article HTML via the Wikipedia API and counts words, characters, and sentences found in paragraph elements (<p>), excluding reference markers, tables, infoboxes, and other non-prose content. This tool also lets you pick a date cutoff to count 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 main 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. This tool uses Intl.Segmenter to count words, characters, and sentences so it works in many languages other than English.