Grab the Wikipedia summary for a term and display the result in a buffer. Inspired by WikiTerm.
Currently this exports two functions:
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wiki-summarywhich will interactively prompt you for the string of the page title and gives back the information in a buffer*wiki-summary* -
wiki-summary-insertwhich will interactively prompt you for the string of the page title and insert (or barf if read only) the summary into the current buffer at point.
You can specify a language encoding (as per the URL for that language) with M-x customize-variable and wiki-summary-language-string.