diff --git a/gensim/corpora/wikicorpus.py b/gensim/corpora/wikicorpus.py
index 7214d6b2b0..7bc52bcb75 100644
--- a/gensim/corpora/wikicorpus.py
+++ b/gensim/corpora/wikicorpus.py
@@ -639,6 +639,10 @@ def __init__(self, fname, processes=None, lemmatize=utils.has_pattern(), diction
         else:
             self.dictionary = dictionary
 
+    @property
+    def input(self):
+        return self.fname
+
     def get_texts(self):
         """Iterate over the dump, yielding a list of tokens for each article that passed
         the length and namespace filtering.
diff --git a/gensim/test/test_corpora.py b/gensim/test/test_corpora.py
index 6660542b48..e13e06ca36 100644
--- a/gensim/test/test_corpora.py
+++ b/gensim/test/test_corpora.py
@@ -769,6 +769,11 @@ def test_removed_table_markup(self):
             for word in table_markup:
                 self.assertTrue(word not in text)
 
+    def test_get_stream(self):
+        wiki = self.corpus_class(self.enwiki)
+        sample_text_wiki = next(wiki.getstream()).decode()[1:14]
+        self.assertEqual(sample_text_wiki, "mediawiki xml")
+
     # #TODO: sporadic failure to be investigated
     # def test_get_texts_returns_generator_of_lists(self):
     #     corpus = self.corpus_class(self.enwiki)