I am sure every one of use who use the web on a daily basis for purposes other than e-mail and instant messaging, visit Wikipedia every now and then for the wealth of information that resides in it.

If you are a Linux user and a terminal junkie, and one that would rather prefer to get things done via the terminal, including browsing articles in Wikipedia, there is this interesting command line application wikipedia2text that fetches entries from Wikipedia and displays them in the terminal.

There are several options that accompany the command such as colorizing the output, displaying only a brief summary or full content, getting the url, opening in a web browser, etc.. The command can also be configured by altering environment variables to set a default browser, language settings, use standard output or a pager. There are no requirements other than an active internet connection and only one search term (can be more than one word) is supported which can include special characters.

To install, issue the command:
sudo apt-get install wikipedia2text