wp is a simple Perl script that uses the WWW::Wikipedia module to quickly display a wikipedia article on a shell. #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Wikipedia;
binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
my $searchterm = join " ", @ARGV;
die unless $searchterm;
my $wp = WWW::Wikipedia->new(language => 'de');
my $entry = $wp->search($searchterm);
print $entry->text();
print "Related entries:\n";
for my $related ($entry->related) {
print " $related\n";
}