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wikit

A command-line program for getting Wikipedia summaries easily.

TLDR

Show a short summary of a specific topic on Wikipedia

$ wikit [topic]
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Specify a [l]anguage (ISO 639-1 language code)
$ wikit [topic] --lang [language_code]
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Open the full Wikipedia article in the default browser
$ wikit [topic] -b
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Open a disambiguation menu
$ wikit [topic] -d
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