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+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchYarnDeps,
+  yarnConfigHook,
+  yarnInstallHook,
+  nodejs,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "wikit";
+  version = "4.4-unstable-2022-10-17";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "KorySchneider";
+    repo = "wikit";
+    rev = "6432c6020606868cc5f240d0317040e38b992292";
+    hash = "sha256-WCKLqxNtO+iECfBzQwMn31Pcz/cGWMihTvoHPaQAmak=";
+  };
+
+  offlineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
+    yarnLock = "${finalAttrs.src}/yarn.lock";
+    hash = "sha256-UAqMpb7zM/oVxE6gNkjk6IUoufATc0q2TM10P/A1Rqs=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    yarnConfigHook
+    yarnInstallHook
+    nodejs
+  ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
+    cp ${finalAttrs.src}/data/wikit.1 $out/share/man/man1
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Wikit gives Wikipedia summaries from the terminal";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/KorySchneider/wikit";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/KorySchneider/wikit/releases";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ theobori ];
+    mainProgram = "wikit";
+  };
+})