diff --git a/searx/engines/gentoo.py b/searx/engines/gentoo.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a4e085ba..000000000
--- a/searx/engines/gentoo.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""
- Gentoo Wiki
-"""
-
-from urllib.parse import urlencode, urljoin
-from lxml import html
-from searx.utils import extract_text
-
-# about
-about = {
-    "website": 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/',
-    "wikidata_id": 'Q1050637',
-    "official_api_documentation": 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/api.php',
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": 'HTML',
-}
-
-# engine dependent config
-categories = ['it', 'software wikis']
-paging = True
-base_url = 'https://wiki.gentoo.org'
-
-# xpath queries
-xpath_results = '//ul[@class="mw-search-results"]/li'
-xpath_link = './/div[@class="mw-search-result-heading"]/a'
-xpath_content = './/div[@class="searchresult"]'
-
-
-# cut 'en' from 'en-US', 'de' from 'de-CH', and so on
-def locale_to_lang_code(locale):
-    if locale.find('-') >= 0:
-        locale = locale.split('-')[0]
-    return locale
-
-
-# wikis for some languages were moved off from the main site, we need to make
-# requests to correct URLs to be able to get results in those languages
-lang_urls = {
-    'en': {'base': 'https://wiki.gentoo.org', 'search': '/index.php?title=Special:Search&offset={offset}&{query}'},
-    'others': {
-        'base': 'https://wiki.gentoo.org',
-        'search': '/index.php?title=Special:Search&offset={offset}&{query}\
-                &profile=translation&languagefilter={language}',
-    },
-}
-
-
-# get base & search URLs for selected language
-def get_lang_urls(language):
-    if language != 'en':
-        return lang_urls['others']
-    return lang_urls['en']
-
-
-# Language names to build search requests for
-# those languages which are hosted on the main site.
-main_langs = {
-    'ar': 'العربية',
-    'bg': 'Български',
-    'cs': 'Česky',
-    'da': 'Dansk',
-    'el': 'Ελληνικά',
-    'es': 'Español',
-    'he': 'עברית',
-    'hr': 'Hrvatski',
-    'hu': 'Magyar',
-    'it': 'Italiano',
-    'ko': '한국어',
-    'lt': 'Lietuviškai',
-    'nl': 'Nederlands',
-    'pl': 'Polski',
-    'pt': 'Português',
-    'ru': 'Русский',
-    'sl': 'Slovenský',
-    'th': 'ไทย',
-    'uk': 'Українська',
-    'zh': '简体中文',
-}
-
-
-# do search-request
-def request(query, params):
-    # translate the locale (e.g. 'en-US') to language code ('en')
-    language = locale_to_lang_code(params['language'])
-
-    # if our language is hosted on the main site, we need to add its name
-    # to the query in order to narrow the results to that language
-    if language in main_langs:
-        query += ' (' + main_langs[language] + ')'
-
-    # prepare the request parameters
-    query = urlencode({'search': query})
-    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 20
-
-    # get request URLs for our language of choice
-    urls = get_lang_urls(language)
-    search_url = urls['base'] + urls['search']
-
-    params['url'] = search_url.format(query=query, offset=offset, language=language)
-
-    return params
-
-
-# get response from search-request
-def response(resp):
-    # get the base URL for the language in which request was made
-    language = locale_to_lang_code(resp.search_params['language'])
-    url = get_lang_urls(language)['base']
-
-    results = []
-
-    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-
-    # parse results
-    for result in dom.xpath(xpath_results):
-        link = result.xpath(xpath_link)[0]
-        href = urljoin(url, link.attrib.get('href'))
-        title = extract_text(link)
-        content = extract_text(result.xpath(xpath_content))
-
-        results.append({'url': href, 'title': title, 'content': content})
-
-    return results
diff --git a/searx/engines/mediawiki.py b/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
index 76317402e..81d0c37aa 100644
--- a/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
+++ b/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ base_url: str = 'https://{language}.wikipedia.org/'
   ISO 639-1 language code (en, de, fr ..) of the search language.
 """
 
+api_path: str = 'w/api.php'
+"""The path the PHP api is listening on.
+
+The default path should work fine usually.
+"""
+
 timestamp_format = '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
 """The longhand version of MediaWiki time strings."""
 
@@ -113,12 +119,7 @@ def request(query, params):
     else:
         params['language'] = params['language'].split('-')[0]
 
-    if base_url.endswith('/'):
-        api_url = base_url + 'w/api.php?'
-    else:
-        api_url = base_url + '/w/api.php?'
-    api_url = api_url.format(language=params['language'])
-
+    api_url = f"{base_url.rstrip('/')}/{api_path}?".format(language=params['language'])
     offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * number_of_results
 
     args = {
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 9e23a2615..748e5ac0e 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -797,9 +797,13 @@ engines:
     shortcut: gen
 
   - name: gentoo
-    engine: gentoo
+    engine: mediawiki
     shortcut: ge
-    timeout: 10.0
+    categories: ["it", "software wikis"]
+    base_url: "https://wiki.gentoo.org/"
+    api_path: "api.php"
+    search_type: text
+    timeout: 10
 
   - name: gitlab
     engine: json_engine