mediawiki-mcp-server
The MediaWiki MCP Server enables seamless interaction with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki-based sites. With this server, you can:
Search Wiki Pages: Search for pages using short, focused queries with configurable result limits
Retrieve Page Content: Get detailed content of specific pages by providing exact titles
Connect to Different Wikis: Specify base URLs to access various MediaWiki sites (e.g., wikipedia.org, fandom.com)
Enables searching and retrieving content from Fandom wikis through their MediaWiki-based API.
Provides tools for searching and retrieving content from wiki.gg sites, supporting various gaming and community wikis.
Allows searching and retrieving detailed page content from Wikipedia, with customizable result limits and exact title lookups.
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@mediawiki-mcp-server search for information about quantum computing"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Outdated. Please use https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/MediaWiki-MCP-Server instead!
MediaWiki MCP Server 🚀
A MCP server that provides seamless interaction with Wikipedia's API. This tool allows you to search and retrieve Wikipedia content with LLMs 🤖!
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Features ✨
🔍 Search wiki pages with customizable wiki site. e.g. wikipedia.org, fandom.com, wiki.gg and more!
📖 Retrieve detailed page content
Related MCP server: mediawiki-mcp-server
Usage 💻
Ensure that uv is installed on your device.
Configure in your client:
The server defaults to using https://en.wikipedia.org/. Also, you can make the server search other wiki sites!
To see if a wiki site works with this server, check if it uses MediaWiki software (usually shown by an icon at the bottom of the site).
To check further and find the endpoint (usually the website's domain, like https://mediawiki.org/), check by going to base-url/rest.php/v1/page in a browser (like https://noita.wiki.gg/rest.php/v1/page) and see if the output looks right. If not, add '/w' to the base URL and try again.
Then, set this endpoint as --base-url:

Available transports: stdio (default), streamable-http (http://localhost/mcp), and SSE (http://localhost/sse). See -h for all options.
uvx mediawiki-mcp-server --h
usage: main.py [-h] [--base-url BASE_URL] [--http] [--sse] [--port PORT]
MediaWiki MCP Server
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--base-url BASE_URL Base URL for the MediaWiki API (default: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/``)
--http Run server as streamable-http (instead of stdio)
--sse Run server as sse-http (instead of stdio)
--port PORT Default port for http transport (default: 8000)
Example JSON configurations:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mediawiki-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mediawiki-mcp-server",
"--base-url", "https://example.com/"
],
"env": {
"HTTP_PROXY": "http://example.com:port"
}
}
}
}Or, if you want to run this server from source:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mediawiki-mcp-server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--directory",
"mediawiki-mcp-server",
"path/to/project/src/mediawiki_mcp_server",
"--base-url", "https://example.com/"
],
"env": {
"HTTP_PROXY": "http://example.com:port"
}
}
}
}Supported Tools 🛠
Search
query: Search term (preferably short and focused)limit: Maximum number of results to return (default: 5)
Get Page
title: The exact title of the Wikipedia page to retrieve
Development 👨💻
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run mediawiki-mcp-serverHere are some documents that might help:
Contributing 🤝
This server is under development. Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues and pull requests.
Related Projects ♥️
Cherry Studio: A desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. MCP is supported.
Available Tools
2 toolsget_pageB
Get a page from mediawiki.org Args: title: The title of the page to get, which can be found in title field of the search results Returns: The page content
Inputs: title (required).
searchB
Search for a wiki page. The shorter the request, the better, preferably containing only the main term to be searched. Args: query: The query to search for limit: The number of results to return Returns: A list of pages that match the query
Inputs: query (required), limit.
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TDQS
Scored across 2 tools
The two tools have clearly distinct purposes: get_page retrieves specific page content by title, while search finds pages matching a query. There is no overlap in functionality, making it easy for an agent to select the correct tool based on the task.
Both tools follow a consistent verb_noun pattern (get_page and search, where search implies 'search_pages'). The naming is simple, predictable, and uses snake_case uniformly, providing clear readability.
With only 2 tools, the server feels thin for a MediaWiki domain, lacking essential operations like creating, updating, or deleting pages. While get_page and search cover basic retrieval, the scope is incomplete, making it borderline too few for practical use.
The tool surface is severely incomplete for a MediaWiki server, missing core CRUD operations (e.g., create_page, update_page, delete_page) and other common actions like listing categories or handling user interactions. This will likely cause agent failures in broader workflows.
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