MediaWiki MCP Server

The MediaWiki MCP server provides a powerful set of tools for AI assistants like Claude to interact with your MediaWiki instance. It uses nodemw to communicate with the MediaWiki API to retrieve MediaWiki page content.

Key Features

Get page content : Get the HTML content and metadata of a wiki page
Wiki Search : Search for pages based on keywords
Get category information : Get the category information of a page
Link Analysis : Extracting internal links within a page

Prerequisites

Node.js 18 or higher
npm or yarn

How to use

install

Example of use in Claude settings

Example configuration in the Claude config file: claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
   "mediawiki": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": ["@harugon/mediawiki-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "MEDIAWIKI_PROTOCOL": "https",
        "MEDIAWIKI_SERVER": "ja.wikipedia.org",
        "MEDIAWIKI_PATH": "/w",
        "MEDIAWIKI_USER_AGENT": "MediaWiki-MCP-Server/1.0",
        "MEDIAWIKI_CONCURRENCY": "3",
        "DEBUG": "1"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Features

List of environment variables

Environment variable name	Required	Default value	explanation
MEDIAWIKI_PROTOCOL	×	https	Communication protocol with the MediaWiki server
MEDIAWIKI_SERVER	○	-	The hostname of your MediaWiki server (e.g. ja.wikipedia.org)
MEDIAWIKI_PATH	×	/w	MediaWiki paths
MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME	×	-	Username for logging in
MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD	×	-	Login password
MEDIAWIKI_USER_AGENT	×	MediaWiki-MCP-Server/1.0	User agent when making API requests
MEDIAWIKI_CONCURRENCY	×	3	Limiting the number of simultaneous connections
DEBUG	×	0	Debug mode (enabled at 1)

Known Issues

If the article is too large, it may fail to retrieve the page (requires chunking).
Depends on nodemw, so functionality is limited

Integrations