diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/wikipedia/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wikipedia/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..19b7c42558ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/wikipedia/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, beautifulsoup4
+, requests
+, python
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "wikipedia";
+  version = "1.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "db0fad1829fdd441b1852306e9856398204dc0786d2996dd2e0c8bb8e26133b2";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    beautifulsoup4
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    runHook preCheck
+
+    ${python.interpreter} -m unittest discover tests/ '*test.py'
+
+    runHook postCheck
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Wikipedia API for Python";
+    homepage = https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.worldofpeace ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index c53f355c2b19..94f062a6dc1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -4434,6 +4434,8 @@ in {
 
   wordfreq = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wordfreq { };
 
+  wikipedia = callPackage ../development/python-modules/wikipedia { };
+
   magic-wormhole = callPackage ../development/python-modules/magic-wormhole { };
 
   magic-wormhole-mailbox-server = callPackage ../development/python-modules/magic-wormhole-mailbox-server { };