wikit Command Examples

A command-line program for getting Wikipedia summaries easily. More information: https://github.com/KorySchneider/wikit.

• Show a short summary of a specific topic on Wikipedia:

wikit {{topic}}

• Specify a [l]anguage (ISO 639-1 language code):

wikit {{topic}} --lang {{language_code}}

• Open the full Wikipedia article in the default browser:

wikit {{topic}} -b

• Open a disambiguation menu:

wikit {{topic}} -d