No wikipedia results on Spotlight search

Yosemite issue here:
In all the demos made for the Yosemite presentation of the its new features it's shown the ability of getting wikipedia results via the spotlight search.
In my case i just get a lot of results relatives to my local files but no links to wikipedia or any webpages at all.
I have tried selecting all options in SYSTEM PREFERENCES>SPOTLIGHT with no success.
Thanks,

I have the same problem over here, even though the Netherlands is listed for iOS8 Spotlight Suggestions (https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-av...ht-suggestions). The Spotlight suggestions are working fine on my iPad and iPhone (both iOS8).
Maybe OSX 10.10 Spotlight Suggestions is only working in the USA for now .

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