diff --git a/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts b/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
index 37005a18a..db872ba27 100644
--- a/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
+++ b/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ export class WikipediaHandler extends ContentHandler {
   async preParse(url: string, dom: Document): Promise<Document> {
     // This removes the [edit] anchors from wikipedia pages
     dom.querySelectorAll('.mw-editsection').forEach((e) => e.remove())
+
+    // Remove footnotes
+    dom.querySelectorAll('sup[class="reference"]').forEach((e) => e.remove())
+
     // this removes the sidebar
     dom.querySelector('.infobox')?.remove()
     return Promise.resolve(dom)