Show what an article said on a given date — the time machine. Given an article title and a YYYY-MM-DD date, finds the latest surviving revision at or before that day and returns its lead text: how the article read then, with the revision ID, timestamp, editor, edit summary, and a permanent link to the exact revision. Follows redirects; reports clearly when the article had no revision before the date. The history companion to summary (the article now), revisions (the raw edit log), and revision_diff (what changed between revisions). Read-only via the action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

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.

Show the maintenance banners editors placed on an article — Wikipedia's own warning labels ({{POV}}, {{Original research}}, {{Unreferenced}}, {{Cleanup}}, {{Disputed}}, ...). Each flag lists its banner name, tag date, location (article top or section), and a plain-language meaning. The trust-signal companion to article_quality (the grade), citation_needed (unsourced claims), and talk (editor discussion): check it to see exactly what editors think is wrong with an article before relying on it. Read-only — GET only, no new dependencies.

Find the shortest click-path between two articles — the six-degrees game. Given two article titles, searches Wikipedia's link graph for the shortest chain of blue links connecting them (e.g. Banana → Africa → Anatolia → Trojan War). Bidirectional and bounded: 1 hop checks a direct link, 2 hops intersects the start's outgoing links with pages linking to the target, 3 hops expands a bounded sample of the start's links. Follows redirects. The discovery companion to links and backlinks. Read-only action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

Is this Wikipedia article locked, who can still touch it, and for how long — the page's protection status. Reports which actions are restricted (editing, moving/renaming, creating a missing title), at what level (semi-protection, extended-confirmed, administrators-only), and when each restriction expires; cascade protections name their source page. Missing titles are reported too (salted titles carry a "create" protection). Follows redirects. The lockdown companion to the other trust signals: article_quality (the grade), article_flags (editorial warnings), citation_needed (unsourced claims), and talk (editor discussion). Read-only — GET only, no new dependencies.

Vital signs of a Wikipedia article — how alive is this page right now. One-screen health check: creation date and creator (earliest surviving revision), page length, watcher count, the most recent edit (when, who, edit summary), and edit velocity over the last 30 days (edit count plus distinct editors), capped with a plain-language activity verdict (buzzing / active / quiet / dormant). Follows redirects. The liveliness companion to article_quality (the grade earned), contributors (who edits it), revisions (the raw edit log), and pageviews (the traffic). Read-only via the action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

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.

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).

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.

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 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).

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.

Which publishers an article's evidence comes from — its sources by domain. Aggregates the article's reference list into a publisher map: every off-wiki link cited in the numbered references is grouped by registrable domain (so all *.bbc.co.uk citations land under bbc.co.uk) and ranked by citation count, with each domain's share of linked references. Also reports the share of citations with archived (Wayback Machine / archive.org) copies and the share pointing at DOI-linked scholarly works. The diversity lens for the "can I rely on this article?" audit: shows at a glance whether the bibliography is balanced (dozens of independent publishers) or lopsided (half the evidence from one outlet). Follows redirects. Pairs with references (the full bibliography), article_quality (the grade), article_flags (editorial warnings), and citation_needed (unsourced claims). Read-only via the action API — 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Wikipedia's Featured List of the day — the editors' curated list pick from the Main Page, the list counterpart to featured_article (long-form). List articles are among the most browsable content on Wikipedia, so this is a strong daily discovery hook. Accepts an optional date (YYYYMMDD, default today UTC) to browse past featured lists. Returns the list title linked to the article, the day's blurb with key links, and the illustrative image with caption. Featured lists are scheduled on English Wikipedia only; dates too far in the future may not be queued yet.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The most-referenced articles on Wikipedia — ranked by incoming links. Uses the read-only Most Linked report (action API list=querypage) to list the articles with the most incoming links on a language Wikipedia: the in-link popularity ranking of the encyclopedia, a measure of how central a topic is to the link graph rather than how often it's read. Article namespace only (project-namespace policy pages filtered out). The discovery companion to top_reads (what people read), wanted_articles (what's missing, ranked by the same demand signal), and backlinks (per-article inbound links): shows what's most central to what exists. Read-only via the action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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 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 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.

Show the most recently active discussion threads on an article's talk page — what Wikipedia editors are currently debating, questioning, or proposing about the topic. Each thread lists its heading, last-activity timestamp, signed-comment count, and an excerpt of the latest comment. Automated maintenance notices (redirect/deletion discussions) are filtered out. The behind-the-scenes companion to contributors and article_quality: check it to find controversies, open questions, and editorial disputes before relying on an article. Read-only — GET only, no new dependencies.

Which articles transclude a given template — "what embeds this template". Lists the first N articles that embed {{template}} (with or without the "Template:" prefix; template redirects are resolved), each linked to its article, plus links to the template page and the full transclusion list on-wiki. The transclusion sibling of backlinks (which only sees plain wikilinks): use it to build research corpora ("every article using this infobox"), measure a navbox's reach, or audit deprecated-template cleanup. Article namespace only. Read-only via the action API — GET only, no new dependencies.

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 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.

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.

Articles Wikipedia doesn't have yet — ranked by demand. Uses the read-only Wanted Pages report (action API list=querypage) to list the most-wanted missing articles on a language Wikipedia: redlink titles ranked by how many existing pages link to them. Article namespace only; template-driven redlink clusters (identical link counts) are collapsed. The discovery companion to top_reads (what people read) and recent_changes (what editors just did): shows what should exist but doesn't. Read-only via the action API — GET only, no new dependencies.