MediaWiki:Gadget-articleCharacterCount.js

try { // containerize gadget, to protect other gadgets if this one goes wrong

/*
Gives a character count of the number of letters on a current page before and after removing formatting characters.

It does the following before counting (in this order)
*rm html
*rm headers (==foo==)
*rm bold/italic (''italic'')
*rm Date template
*put template parameters as text outside of template
*remove templates
*put linked text outside of external links
*remove external links
*Put images to there caption/alt text
*make links to text
*make category links to just category name
*rm excess whitespace

Only thing formatting wise that is kept is bullets as arestricks.
maintained by user:Bawolff
*/
mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=' + 'user:Bawolff/mwapilib2.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
$(function () {
mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', 'javascript:countThoseChars(mw.config.get(\'wgPageName\'));', 'Character count', 't-charCount', 'Count the number of characters after removing formating of the current page');
});

function countThoseChars(page) {
//precond page = mw.config.get('wgPageName'). or it will say its counting wrong page.
var text = document.getElementById('wpTextbox1');
var init;
if (text) {
init = api(text.value);
} else {
init = api(page).getPage();
}
init.push().lift(function (p) { return p.length;}).swap().
replace(/\<[^>]*\>/g, '').
replace(/^\s{0,4}(={1,6})([\s\S]*)\1\s*$/mg, "$2").
replace(/\'{2,5}/g, '').
replace(/\{\{[dD]ate\|[^\}]*\}\}/g, '').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/(\{\{[^\|}]*)\|(\|[^\}=]*\|)?[^\|\}=]*=([^\|}]*)((?:\|[^\}]*)?\}\})/g, '$1$2$4 $3 ').
replace(/\{\{[^\|}]*\}\}/g, '').
replace(/\{\{[^\|}]*\|([^\}]*)\}\}/g, ' $1 ').
replace(/\[http(?:s)?:\/\/\S*\s([^\]]*)]/g, ' $1 ').
replace(/http(?:s)?:\/\/\S*/g, '').
replace(/\[\[[iIfF][mMiI][aAlL][gGeE][eE]?\:[^\]]*\|([^\]]*)\]\]/g, ' $1 ').
replace(/\[\[[cC]ategory\:([^\]]*)\]\]/g, ' $1 ').
replace(/\[\[[^\|\]]*\|([^\]]*)\]\]/g, '$1').
replace(/\[\[([^\]]*)\]\]/g, '$1').
replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').
lift2(function (norm, raw) {alert("Normalized article '" + mw.config.get('wgTitle') + "' has " + norm.length + " characters for " + convertToPoints(norm.length) + " points (" + raw + " characters unnormalized)\n\nNote, this reflects the " + ( text ? "version in the text box, NOT the last saved version" : "last saved version, not what might be unsaved in an edit box somewhere" ) + ". If this article is a photoessay, it may count for more points then mentioned here."); return norm; }).exec();
}

var convertToPoints = function (count) {
 var cats = document.getElementById('catlinks').getElementsByTagName('a');
 var OR, user, points, catName;
 for (var i = 0; i < cats.length; i++) {
 catName = cats[i].title;
  /*if (catName.substring(catName.length - 9, catName.length) === "(WWC2010)") {
   user = catName.substring(9, catName.length - 10);
  }*/
  if (catName === "Category:Original reporting") {
   OR = true;
  }
 }
 if (count < 1200) {
  points = 1;
 } else {
  points = 3;
 }
 if ((count - 1200)/700 > 0) {
  points += 2*Math.floor((count - 1200)/700);
 }
 if (OR) {
  points += 6;
 }
 if (document.getElementById('broadcast-report')) {
  points += 4;
 }
 return points;
};

} catch (e) { // containerize gadget, to protect other gadgets if this one goes wrong
  // ignore
}