wikipedia.feed.on_this_day
Retrieve historical events that occurred on a given month/day across all years — returns event text, year, and links to up to 3 related Wikipedia articles per event. Useful for history timelines, date-based trivia, and anniversary lookups. No auth required. Data: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA ...
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What wikipedia.feed.on_this_day does on Apibase
AI agents call wikipedia.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
date | string | — | Date in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. "2024-07-04"). Only month and day are used — year is ignored. Returns historical events that happened on this month/day across a |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why wikipedia.feed.on_this_day is rated Low
Queries historical event data from Wikipedia with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Retrieve historical events occurred on given month/day across all years
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The rule that runs wikipedia.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 wikipedia.feed.on_this_day, this is the rule to start with:
wikipedia.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 wikipedia.feed.on_this_day call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about wikipedia.feed.on_this_day
Retrieve historical events that occurred on a given month/day across all years — returns event text, year, and links to up to 3 related Wikipedia articles per event. Useful for history timelines, date-based trivia, and anniversary lookups. No auth required. Data: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
wikipedia.feed.on_this_day accepts 1 parameter: date. 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 wikipedia.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.
wikipedia.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 wikipedia.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 wikipedia.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.
wikipedia.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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