wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day
Get historical events, births, deaths, holidays, or editor-selected highlights that occurred on a given month/day across history, as curated by Wikipedia. Select category with type (births, deaths, events, holidays, selected) and the language edition with lang (default en). Data: Wikipedia REST A...
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What wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day does on Apibase
AI agents call wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
day | string | Yes | 2-digit day of month (e.g. 30) |
lang | string | — | Wikipedia language edition subdomain code (default en, e.g. de, fr, ja, zh-yue) |
type | string | Yes | Category of historical events to return |
month | string | Yes | 2-digit month (e.g. 08 for August) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day is rated Low
Retrieves curated historical data from Wikipedia with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Get historical events, births, deaths, holidays; Wikipedia REST API, no auth required.
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The rule that runs wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day, this is the rule to start with:
wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day
Get historical events, births, deaths, holidays, or editor-selected highlights that occurred on a given month/day across history, as curated by Wikipedia. Select category with type (births, deaths, events, holidays, selected) and the language edition with lang (default en). Data: Wikipedia REST API (wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/onthisday), no auth required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day accepts 4 parameters: day, lang, type, month. Required: day, type, month. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
wikimedia-rest.feed.on_this_day is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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