---
name: "wikipedia"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-wikipedia-perl"
version: "2.05-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wikipedia"
---

# wikipedia(1p)

lookup an entry in the wikipedia

## NAME

wikipedia - lookup an entry in the wikipedia

## SYNOPSIS

```
    % wikipedia [-l lang] perl
```

## DESCRIPTION

wikipedia is a command line tool for looking up a topic in the wikipedia and printing it to STDOUT. Useful if you spend a lot of time in a shell and don't want to fire up a web browser to see what something is.

## AUTHORS

- •

  Slaven Rezic \<slaven@rezic.de\>