diff --git a/searx/engines/wikipedia.py b/searx/engines/wikipedia.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 308295946..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/wikipedia.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-from json import loads
-
-def request(query, params):
-    params['url'] = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=%s&srprop=timestamp&format=json' % query
-
-    return params
-
-
-def response(resp):
-    search_results = loads(resp.text)
-    results = []
-    res = search_results.get('query', {}).get('search', [])
-    if len(res):
-        results.append({'url': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s' % res[0]['title'].replace(' ', '_'), 'title': res[0]['title']})
-    return results
-