wiki-summary
Fetch Wikipedia's current summary of any topic with zero API keys — the REST summary endpoint via curl, for answers that need today's article rather than training-data memory. Use when asked what does Wikipedia say about X, get me the current summary of a topic, check a fact against Wikipedia, or has this article changed. Produces the live extract with the article link, disambiguation handling, and a clean separation between what Wikipedia says and what the model adds.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill wiki-summary --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Wiki Summary Skill The model already knows what Wikipedia said at training time; this skill fetches what it says *now* — which matters for anything living: people's roles, company facts, ongoing events, populations, "current CEO" questions. Wikipedia's REST API serves a clean summary per article over keyless HTTPS. The skill's discipline is attribution: the fetched extract is Wikipedia's voice, dated today; anything the model adds around it gets labeled as such. ## What This Skill Produces - **The live extract** — Wikipedia's current summary paragraph(s) for the topic, quoted as the source - **The link and metadata** — canonical URL, and the description line ("American computer scientist") - **Disambiguation handling** — when the title is ambiguous, the options, not a guess - **The command** — exact curl, rerunnable ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The topic** — resolved to an article title (spaces → underscores); ambiguous names get the disambiguation treatment, not a silent pick - **Language edition** — en default; the endpoint pattern works on any edition (`de.wikipedia.org`, `ja.wikipedia.org`) and the user's question may belong in one - **Why they're ask
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Endpoint and the Attribution Rules
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- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the wiki-summary skill do?
Fetch Wikipedia's current summary of any topic with zero API keys — the REST summary endpoint via curl, for answers that need today's article rather than training-data memory. Use when asked what does Wikipedia say about X, get me the current summary of a topic, check a fact against Wikipedia, or has this article changed. Produces the live extract with the article link, disambiguation handling, and a clean separation between what Wikipedia says and what the model adds.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill wiki-summary --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.