# Wikipedia

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## Tools

Wikipedia pageviews — how much attention any topic on Earth gets, daily or monthly since July 2015, plus the most-read articles of any day.

Data from Wikimedia. See [Wikipedia](/docs/data/sources/wikipedia) for coverage, freshness and credits.

Your agent reaches these on Vistazo's MCP server, `https://mcp.vistazo.ai/mcp`, through `search_tools` and `call_tool`, as `wikipedia__<tool>` — for example `wikipedia__search_articles`.

| Tool | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| [`search_articles`](#search_articles) | Search articles | Read-only |
| [`pageviews`](#pageviews) | Article pageviews | Read-only |
| [`top_articles`](#top_articles) | Most-viewed articles | Read-only |

## search_articles

`Read-only` · `Reaches outside Vistazo`

Find Wikipedia articles by phrase (e.g. "anthropic claude", "spanish flu") — returns {matches: [{title, description}]}, ranked. Call this FIRST: every other tool takes an exact article title, and guessing one returns zeros rather than an error.

## pageviews

`Read-only` · `Reaches outside Vistazo`

Daily or monthly pageviews for one or more articles over a date range — one row per date with a column per article, chart-ready as a line. Public attention over time, back to 2015-07. Pass titles exactly as search_articles returns them. Use interval="monthly" for ranges over a year to keep charts readable; monthly rows are whole calendar months, so mid-month bounds widen to the 1st and the last day of the month, and `coverage` reports the days actually counted.

## top_articles

`Read-only` · `Reaches outside Vistazo`

The most-viewed Wikipedia articles for a given day or month — a ranked leaderboard in `articles` ({date, rank, title, views}, not `rows`) that reshuffles daily. ONE day by default; for "the most read article per day" over a range, pass `end_date` and get one leaderboard per day, up to 31 days, every row carrying its own `date`. Navigation pages (Main_Page, Special:Search) are filtered out, so the list is real topics. Omit the date for the most recent complete day.