Commandline Wikipedia Search - put this in your $PATH like usr/local/bin - it's a brute force hack but it works

wikisearch

#!/bin/bash
#
# wikisearch: Wikipedia search in the commandline
# cc0 by Lee2sman 2016

# DEPENDENCIES: w3m
# USAGE: wikisearch [search term]

hash w3m &> /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]	 #Checks to see if w3m is installed
   then
   echo >&2 "w3m must be installed to use wikisearch."
   exit 1
elif [ $# -eq 0 ]
	then
	    #Exits if haven't entered anything to search after wikisearch
        echo "No search arguments entered."
        echo "USAGE: wikisearch [search term]"
        exit 1
    else
    	# Escape spaces for URL
        a="$*"
        q=${a// /+}
        w3m -dump "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=$q&go=Go" | more
fi