Counting word occurrences in Wikipedia

Question

Is there any way to use Wikipedia API to count the number of word occurrences in Wikipedia. For example, how many times the word "Hello" appears in Wikipedia? I read the MediaWiki API docs but could not find it there! appreciate any help!

Answer 1

There is no way to get a global word count from the API in a single call. If you are interested in wordcounts, then your best bet would be using the database dumps: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html