diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/1.10.2.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/tools/networking/wget/default.nix
rename to pkgs/tools/networking/wget/1.10.2.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/1.11.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/1.11.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c7295f1df94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/wget/1.11.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+args: with args;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "wget-" + version;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/wget/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0mhd3181zdp1fwirxw0km7502sfvjmm1ncska9w6s2drczf37aix";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [gettext];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A console downloading program. Has some features for mirroring sites.";
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/wget;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 143cf980c47..3d558190b97 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -832,10 +832,12 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  wget = import ../tools/networking/wget {
+  wgetFun = lib.sumArgs (selectVersion ../tools/networking/wget "1.11") {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv gettext;
   };
 
+  wget = wgetFun null;
+
   which = import ../tools/system/which {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv readline;
   };