diff --git a/langchain/document_loaders/wikipedia.py b/langchain/document_loaders/wikipedia.py
index c1b2b693f..e9e5fca1f 100644
--- a/langchain/document_loaders/wikipedia.py
+++ b/langchain/document_loaders/wikipedia.py
@@ -18,17 +18,36 @@ class WikipediaLoader(BaseLoader):
         lang: str = "en",
         load_max_docs: Optional[int] = 100,
         load_all_available_meta: Optional[bool] = False,
+        doc_content_chars_max: Optional[int] = 4000,
     ):
+        """
+        Initializes a new instance of the WikipediaLoader class.
+
+        Args:
+            query (str): The query string to search on Wikipedia.
+            lang (str, optional): The language code for the Wikipedia language edition. Defaults to "en".
+            load_max_docs (int, optional): The maximum number of documents to load. Defaults to 100.
+            load_all_available_meta (bool, optional): Indicates whether to load all available metadata for each document. Defaults to False.
+            doc_content_chars_max (int, optional): The maximum number of characters for the document content. Defaults to 4000.
+        """
         self.query = query
         self.lang = lang
         self.load_max_docs = load_max_docs
         self.load_all_available_meta = load_all_available_meta
+        self.doc_content_chars_max = doc_content_chars_max
 
     def load(self) -> List[Document]:
+        """
+        Loads the query result from Wikipedia into a list of Documents.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Document]: A list of Document objects representing the loaded Wikipedia pages.
+        """
         client = WikipediaAPIWrapper(
             lang=self.lang,
             top_k_results=self.load_max_docs,
             load_all_available_meta=self.load_all_available_meta,
+            doc_content_chars_max=self.doc_content_chars_max,
         )
         docs = client.load(self.query)
         return docs