mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

Secure MCP server for MediaWiki wikis. Search, read, create, edit, and manage wiki pages, categories, files, and more. Works with any MediaWiki instance — public or private.

Installation

uvx (recommended)

uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

pip

pip install mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools
mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

Container

podman run -e MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ \
  quay.io/crunchtools/mcp-mediawiki

Usage with Claude Code

Read-only (public wiki, no auth needed)

claude mcp add mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ \
  -- uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

With authentication (for write operations)

claude mcp add mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://your-wiki.com/w/ \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME=BotUser \
  --env MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD=BotPassword \
  -- uvx mcp-mediawiki-crunchtools

HTTP transport (systemd / container)

podman run -d --name mcp-mediawiki \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8016:8016 \
  -e MEDIAWIKI_URL=https://your-wiki.com/w/ \
  quay.io/crunchtools/mcp-mediawiki \
  --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0

Claude Code config:

{"type": "http", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8016/mcp"}

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
`MEDIAWIKI_URL`	Yes	Wiki base URL (e.g., `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/`)
`MEDIAWIKI_USERNAME`	No	Bot/user account for write operations
`MEDIAWIKI_PASSWORD`	No	Bot/user password
`MEDIAWIKI_HTTP_USER`	No	HTTP Basic Auth username (.htaccess)
`MEDIAWIKI_HTTP_PASS`	No	HTTP Basic Auth password

Tools (19)

Category	Tool	Description
Pages	`search`	Full-text search across wiki
Pages	`get_page`	Get page wikitext content
Pages	`get_page_html`	Parse page to HTML
Pages	`list_pages`	List pages with prefix filter
Pages	`create_page`	Create a new page
Pages	`edit_page`	Edit an existing page
Pages	`delete_page`	Delete a page
Pages	`move_page`	Move/rename a page
Categories	`list_categories`	List all categories
Categories	`get_category_members`	Get pages in a category
Categories	`get_page_categories`	Get categories for a page
Recent Changes	`list_recent_changes`	List recent edits
Parsing	`parse_wikitext`	Parse raw wikitext to HTML
Site Info	`get_site_info`	Get wiki config and version
Site Info	`list_namespaces`	List wiki namespaces
Users	`get_user_info`	Get user details
Users	`list_user_contributions`	List user edits
Files	`get_file_info`	Get file/image metadata
Files	`list_files`	List files on the wiki

Development

# Install dev dependencies
uv sync --all-extras

# Quality gates
uv run ruff check src tests
uv run mypy src
uv run pytest -v
gourmand --full .
podman build -f Containerfile .

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later