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 the Simple English Wikipedia version of a topic by title — a plain-language explanation written in short sentences with common words, in the same title + summary + thumbnail shape as summary. Use when you want "explain it simply" (kids, ESL readers, quick intuition) or the full article is too dense. Reports clearly when no Simple English article exists for the topic, pointing you at summary for the full version.

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).

Read ONE section of a Wikipedia article as plain text — the targeted-reading companion to article_sections. Pass a section number exactly as shown by article_sections (e.g. 2 or '2.1'; 0 reads the lead/intro), or a heading name (case-insensitive, e.g. 'Life and career'); misspelled names get close-match suggestions. Renders the section via the read-only parse API and returns clean text with paragraph structure — no need to pull the whole 50KB+ article via article_extract when you only want one part of it. Follows redirects; the link at the bottom deep-links to the section on the article page.

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 Wikimedia Commons' Media of the Day — the curated daily video/audio clip from Commons' Media of the Day selection. Returns media kind, duration, a preview thumbnail (video) or listen link (audio), artist, license, and description. Accepts an optional YYYYMMDD date (default today UTC) to browse past picks — the motion-and-sound counterpart to picture_of_the_day 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.

Get notable births that happened on today's date (UTC) from Wikipedia's 'On This Day' feed — the births companion to on_this_day (events) and deaths_on_this_day (deaths). Useful for 'born on this day' content hooks, birthday round-ups, 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).

Search Wikimedia Commons for freely-licensed media by keyword — the topic-based counterpart to image (lead image of a known article) and media_list (media already used in an article). Give it a topic ('aurora borealis', 'vintage trains') and get back real Commons files with thumbnail and full-size URLs, dimensions, license, and artist — ready to embed in cards, posts, slide decks, or README hero images. filetype filters to 'image' (default: photos + diagrams / SVGs), 'video', 'audio', or 'all'. Commons is language-independent, so this tool takes no lang parameter. Everything returned is freely licensed; check the license on the file page before reuse.

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).

Extract the structured fact box (infobox) from a Wikipedia article as a field/value table — dates, people, places, statistics, founders, CEOs, populations, capitals. The fastest path to a concrete fact ('who founded X?', 'what's the population of Y?') without wading through prose. Renders wikitext into clean plain text (citations stripped, links flattened, fields capped at 50). Use this for facts; use summary for the prose gist and article_extract for full text. Reports clearly when an article has no infobox.

Get Wikipedia's quality assessments for an article — the WikiProject grades (FA, GA, B, C, Start, Stub) and importance ratings assigned by editors. The encyclopedia's own trust signal: use it before relying on an article (a GA/FA passed formal review; a Stub is a skeleton). Reports an overall class plus the per-project breakdown with a quality-ladder legend. Assessment is enabled per language edition (en works; some editions like de report no data). Read-only via the pageassessments action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

Find Wikipedia articles semantically similar to a given article — 'what should I read next'. Uses Wikipedia's own search engine (MoreLikeThis scoring over article text and link structure), unlike links (raw outgoing links) or categories (shared topic buckets): given 'Velociraptor', expect dromaeosaurids, feathered dinosaurs, and 'Deinonychus'. Each result shows the article's short description and thumbnail; the source article itself is excluded. Read-only via the action API search generator — GET only, no new dependencies.

Who writes and maintains a Wikipedia article — the most active recent editors. Tallies the article's recent edit history (up to 500 revisions) into a ranked contributor table: top named editors by edit count with their share of sampled edits and user-page links, plus the anonymous (IP) edit share. A provenance companion to article_quality (the grade earned) and revisions (the raw edit log): a page tended by veteran caretakers reads differently from one mostly touched by drive-by IP edits, and the top names are the people to credit or check for conflicts of interest. Follows redirects. Read-only action API revisions query — GET only, no new dependencies.

The sources an article cites — its bibliography. Returns the article's numbered reference list: each citation's text plus the off-wiki URLs it points to (DOI, publisher, archive, primary-source links). The verification companion to external_links (which dumps every off-wiki link on the page): references returns only the sources the article actually cites. Useful for source verification, citation audits, bibliography building, and primary-source discovery. Follows redirects. Read-only parse API — GET only, no new dependencies.

Compare two revisions of an article and show exactly what changed — a plain-text unified diff of the article's wikitext between revision rev_from and rev_to (get revision IDs from revisions). Each side is labelled with its timestamp, editor, and edit summary. The edit-auditing companion to revisions: use it to see what a specific edit added or removed, review edits before trusting a new paragraph, or spot stealth rewrites. limit clamps diff lines (default 100, max 500).

Resolve a Wikipedia disambiguation page into its candidate articles. Detects whether a title (e.g. 'Mercury', 'Apple', 'Python') is a disambiguation page and, if so, returns the structured option list — article title plus one-line description — grouped by the page's own sections. Resolves the classic dead-end where search/summary land on an ambiguous title: call this, pick the right candidate, then fetch it with summary or article_extract. Reports clearly when the title is a regular article or doesn't exist.

What a Wikipedia editor has been doing — their recent contributions across the encyclopedia. Shows the latest edits by a named account (or an IP address, e.g. user='192.0.2.1'): edited pages, timestamps, byte-size deltas, edit comments, and flags for new pages, minor edits, and edits still current. The header reports registration date and total edit count. The reverse angle of contributors (who edits this article): profile a top contributor, audit an anonymous IP's activity, or spot single-purpose accounts (edits confined to one topic hint at a conflict of interest). namespace scopes the search (default 0 = articles). Read-only — GET only, no new dependencies.

Find statements Wikipedia has flagged as needing a source. Two angles: pass article to extract every sentence in that article carrying a {{citation needed}} tag (the exact claims editors flagged, with tag dates), or pass topic (or neither) to search Wikipedia for articles with unsourced claims on that topic, each with the flagged claim's text. Use it to find sourcing work as an editor or to spot the shakiest claims in a topic you're researching. The verification companion to references: this finds what's missing a source. Tag-name matching is English-centric; lang accepted for API consistency. Read-only — GET only, no new dependencies.