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WikipediaSearch[keywords]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Title"keywords,options]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Category"keywords,options]

returns a list of Wikipedia categories whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Content"keywords]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose content includes the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch[loc]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose associated coordinates are near the given location.

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WikipediaSearch

WikipediaSearch[keywords]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Title"keywords,options]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Category"keywords,options]

returns a list of Wikipedia categories whose titles include the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch["Content"keywords]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose content includes the given keywords.

WikipediaSearch[loc]

returns a list of Wikipedia articles whose associated coordinates are near the given location.

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Basic Examples  (3)

Search for articles by title:

Wolfram Language code: WikipediaSearch["Artificial intelligence"]
Wolfram Language code: WikipediaSearch["Title" -> "gold", MaxItems -> 10]

Search for articles by content:

Wolfram Language code: WikipediaSearch["Content" -> "Richard Feynman", MaxItems -> 10]

Find Wikipedia articles with coordinates near a given location:

Wolfram Language code: WikipediaSearch[GeoDisk[Entity["Building", "EiffelTower::5h9w8"], Quantity[500, "Meters"]]]

Find Wikipedia articles with coordinates near a given article:

Wolfram Language code: WikipediaSearch[GeoDisk[WikipediaData["Central Park", "GeoPosition"], Quantity[500, "Meters"]]]

Scope  (1)

WikipediaSearch can be used as a starting point for exploratory analysis of topics:

Wolfram Language code: titles = WikipediaSearch["black cat", MaxItems -> 10];

Retrieve summaries for the matching articles and extract the most frequent terms with WikipediaData:

Wolfram Language code: terms = TextCases[WikipediaData[titles, "SummaryPlaintext"], "Noun"];

Visualize the most common concepts appearing across the articles:

Wolfram Language code: WordCloud[terms]
Wolfram Research (2014), WikipediaSearch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), WikipediaSearch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "WikipediaSearch." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). WikipediaSearch. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_wikipediasearch, author="Wolfram Research", title="{WikipediaSearch}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_wikipediasearch, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={WikipediaSearch}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WikipediaSearch.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}