Search Wikipedia for articles matching a query — the entry point when you don't know the exact article title. Returns a ranked, numbered list of matching articles, each with a short text snippet and its Wikipedia URL (use limit for up to 20 results). Once you've identified the right title, pass it to summary for the gist, article_extract for the full text, or links to explore outward. Reports 'No results found' for empty queries instead of erroring.

Get a concise summary of a Wikipedia article by exact title, plus its lead thumbnail image when one exists. The fastest way to get the gist of a known topic — e.g. 'Tyrannosaurus' or 'Albert_Einstein'. If you don't know the exact title, use search first to find it. For the full article text use article_extract; for just the section outline use article_sections.

Fetch a summary of a random Wikipedia article — serendipitous discovery across the entire encyclopedia. Returns the same title + summary + thumbnail shape as summary, but for a surprise topic. Ideal for exploration, icebreakers, trivia, and content inspiration when there's no specific subject in mind; supports other languages via lang.

Get a random 'Did You Know' style fact from Wikipedia — great for hooks and general trivia

Get a 'Did You Know' style fact about dinosaurs or prehistoric life. Pass a specific species ('Tyrannosaurus', 'Spinosaurus') for a targeted fact, or call with no arguments for a random dino. Falls back to a random dino if the requested species isn't found on Wikipedia.

Get a Wikipedia article's full plain-text extract by title — much longer than summary (typically several paragraphs). Returns plain text (no HTML). Complements summary: use it when the summary is too brief and you want a fuller reading.

Get the table of contents (section headings) for a Wikipedia article — section number, heading text, and nesting level. Useful for navigating long articles before committing to the full body via article_extract. Major articles can have 50KB+ of body text; article_sections gives the TOC in a compact numbered list so callers can pick what to read next. Pairs with summary (lead), article_sections (structure), article_extract (full body).

Get today's Wikipedia Featured Article — the single article Wikipedia's editors showcase as the best of the encyclopedia that day. Returns the full long-form extract plus thumbnail: reliably high-quality, surprising, in-depth content. A strong daily source of hooks and deep dives; for the curated daily image instead use picture_of_the_day, and for today's historical events use on_this_day.

Get Wikimedia Commons' Picture of the Day — the curated daily image from Wikipedia's featured feed. Returns preview + full-size image URLs, photographer, license, and description. Accepts an optional YYYYMMDD date (default today UTC) to browse past pictures — the visual counterpart to featured_article for daily content hooks.

Get historical events that happened on today's date (UTC) from Wikipedia's 'On This Day' feed. Returns a random sample of events with year + description + Wikipedia link — great daily content hook alongside featured_article.

Get notable deaths that happened on today's date (UTC) from Wikipedia's 'On This Day' feed — the deaths-only companion to on_this_day (which returns events). Useful for 'in memoriam' content hooks, obituary-style social posts, and newsletter intros. Pairs with on_this_day (events) and featured_article (today's long-form pick) for a full daily 'today in Wikipedia' digest.

List Wikipedia categories an article belongs to. Useful for taxonomy-based discovery — finding related topics that don't appear in text search. Hidden/maintenance categories are filtered out.

List outgoing Wikipedia links from an article (the article network in raw form). Useful for graph-style discovery — given 'Tyrannosaurus', see which genera, paleontologists, formations, and anatomical terms it references. Filters to main namespace so talk/user/etc. don't pollute the result.

List incoming Wikipedia links to an article — i.e. 'what links here' / backlinks / referrer pages. Inverse of links: given 'Velociraptor', see which other articles reference it (cultural mentions, scientific citations, comparative anatomy pages, etc.). Useful for graph-style discovery in the reverse direction — mapping an article's position in the encyclopedia network. Filters to main namespace so talk/user/etc. don't pollute the result.

List external (off-wiki) links from a Wikipedia article — citations, references, primary sources, and other off-wiki resources the article points to. Outbound complement to links (internal outgoing) and backlinks (internal incoming): the trio (links + backlinks + external_links) maps the full reference network around an article. Useful for source verification, citation audits, primary-source discovery, and fact-checking research.

List Wikipedia articles geographically near a location — location-based discovery. Anchor by article title (e.g. 'Eiffel Tower' — uses that article's coordinates, no geocoding service needed) or by explicit lat/lon. Returns nearby articles with distances in meters/km. Useful for travel research and 'what's notable around here' questions.

List all language versions of a Wikipedia article (langlinks). Returns the other-language editions the article exists in — e.g. for 'Tyrannosaurus' (en), returns de/fr/es/ja/zh titles. Complements the one-way lang parameter used by other tools: every tool can query a single language, but only translations reveals the article's full language coverage so callers can pick a target language to fetch next. Useful for translation research (full coverage vs. stub languages), cross-language content sourcing, and language-coverage analysis. limit clamps the number of entries (default 30, max 100) — popular articles can have 100+ language versions.

Show an article's recent edit history ('View history'): revision id, timestamp, editor, edit summary, and byte-size delta vs the previous revision. Each revision links to its diff (Special:Diff/) so you can inspect exactly what changed. Useful for tracking how an article evolves, auditing edits on a topic, or spotting edit activity around current events. Complements pageviews (popularity) with provenance (who changed what, when).

Get daily view counts for a Wikipedia article over a date range (popularity research, trending topics, historical interest). Uses Wikimedia's pageviews REST API. Default window is the last 7 days ending yesterday UTC. Returns total + daily average + markdown table of daily views.

Get current events from Wikipedia's Main Page 'In the news' section — the editorially-curated list of recent notable events. Pairs with featured_article (today's long-form pick) and on_this_day (historical) — news covers the present tense. Bold-linked article titles become Markdown so the main subject of each event stands out.

Get just the lead image for a Wikipedia article — returns both the 300px thumbnail URL and the full-resolution original URL from Wikipedia's REST summary endpoint. Useful when you want the article's image for embedding elsewhere (cards, Telegram posts, slide decks, README hero images) without the surrounding summary text. summary embeds the thumbnail inline; image exposes both URLs separately so downstream tools can fetch / display at any size. Returns a clean message if the article has no image.

Get the most-read articles on Wikipedia for a given date. Uses Wikimedia's top-pageviews endpoint (all-access, daily). Default date is yesterday UTC (today's data is typically not yet finalized). Filters out non-content namespaces (Main_Page, Special:Search, Portal:Current_events, Wikipedia:*, etc.) so the result is real articles only. Pairs with pageviews (per-article over a range) for trending-vs-popular comparisons — top_reads answers 'what is everyone reading right now' while pageviews answers 'how is this specific article trending'.

List all media (images, videos, audio) used in a Wikipedia article — not just the lead thumbnail. Returns a structured markdown list: file title, type (image/video/audio), caption, and thumbnail URL. Lead media is marked so callers can skip it when they already have it via image. Uses Wikipedia's REST /page/media-list endpoint (structured JSON, no HTML parsing). Pairs with image (lead only) — use image for the headline thumbnail, media_list for the full inventory (gallery generation, fact-checking, slide decks, audits). limit clamps the number of items (default 25, max 100).

Get a random notable quote from a curated list of famous authors (Churchill, Einstein, Twain, Gandhi, Mandela, Wilde, Angelou, Jobs, Lennon, Socrates, etc.). Returns a short, time-tested quotation with author attribution. Pairs with did_you_know (random encyclopedia fact) and dino_fact (random dino fact) for variety in 'today's trivia' outputs — great for daily content hooks, social posts, newsletter intros. Currently English-only (curated list); the lang parameter is accepted for API consistency but non-English values still return English quotes.

Show the most recent changes to Wikipedia articles — a live window into what editors are doing right now. Uses the MediaWiki recentchanges feed over the article namespace. kind filters the stream: 'edit' (text changes), 'new' (newly published articles — a discovery feed of brand-new pages), 'categorize' (category membership changes), 'log' (page moves, deletions, protections). Complements revisions (history of one article) with the reverse angle: the freshest edits everywhere. Each entry shows the change kind, article link, byte-size delta, editor, timestamp, edit comment, and a diff link — great for spotting breaking-news edits, new pages on emerging topics, and bot-maintenance sweeps. Read-only.

List Wikipedia articles filed under a category — taxonomy-based discovery. The reverse direction of categories (which lists an article's categories): given 'Machine learning researchers', enumerate who's actually in it. Each entry includes a 1-2 sentence extract plus a thumbnail URL when one exists, so results are browsable at a glance. Filters to main-namespace articles so subcategories and files don't pollute the result. The 'Category:' prefix is optional. Pairs with categories (find the taxonomy) and search (find the entry point).