Which integrations are available for this server?

Integrates with Wikipedia to fetch edit histories, analyze citations, compute SciScore, and extract DOIs, ISBNs, and references from article content.

How do I use wikicitation-mcp?

1. Click on "Deploy Server". 2. Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state. 3. In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@wikicitation-mcp Show top cited papers in 'mRNA vaccine'." 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.

wikicitation-mcp

by jsobel1

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Python

Remote

wikicitation-mcp

Wikipedia citation-science tools for Claude — pure Python, no R required.

An MCP server that exposes 40 tools to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and claude.ai.
Ask Claude to fetch Wikipedia edit histories, analyse citations, score scientific quality, and annotate DOIs and ISBNs — all without leaving the chat.

What you can do

Category	Examples
Edit history	Full revision history, first/latest wikitext, category-wide sweeps
Citation analysis	Count DOIs/refs/ISBNs, extract CS1 templates, compute SciScore
DOI & ISBN annotation	Enrich DOIs via CrossRef / EuropePMC / Altmetric; books via Google Books / Open Library

Related MCP server: chimeralang-mcp

Installation

Option A — PyPI (recommended)

No clone needed. uvx downloads and runs the package in one step:

# Requires uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)
uvx wikicitation-mcp

Or install permanently with pip:

pip install wikicitation-mcp
wikicitation-mcp          # starts the stdio server

Option B — From source

git clone https://github.com/jsobel1/wikicitation-mcp.git
cd wikicitation-mcp
uv sync
uv run python server.py

Connect to Claude

Claude Code (CLI) — PyPI

claude mcp add wikilite -- uvx wikicitation-mcp
claude mcp list

Claude Code (CLI) — from source

# Run from inside the cloned directory
claude mcp add wikilite -- uv run python server.py

Claude Desktop — PyPI

Edit ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikilite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["wikicitation-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop — from source

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikilite": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run", "python",
        "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/wikicitation-mcp/server.py"
      ],
      "cwd": "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/wikicitation-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop — the wikilite server appears in the toolbar.

claude.ai (web, HTTP transport)

uvx wikicitation-mcp --transport streamable-http --port 8000
# Then in claude.ai → Settings → Connections → Add MCP server
# URL: http://localhost:8000/mcp

Quick start

Once connected, try these prompts in Claude:

Fetch all edits to the Wikipedia article "Circadian clock" up to today.

Count all DOIs, references, and ISBNs in this wikitext: [paste wikitext]

Calculate the SciScore for "Sleep deprivation".

Extract all citations from "CRISPR" — how many are journals vs websites vs books?

Show me the top 20 most-cited papers in the Wikipedia article "mRNA vaccine".

Annotate these DOIs with CrossRef metadata:
10.1038/nature12373, 10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.001

Usage notes

`date_limit` is an upper bound

date_limit controls the newest revision returned, not the oldest. To retrieve edits "since 2023", pass today's date as the limit and filter the returned rows by timestamp.

SciScore

get_sci_score returns two metrics:

Field	Formula	Meaning
`sci_score`	journal citations ÷ total CS1 citations	Proportion of references that are peer-reviewed journal articles

Range 0 to 1; higher = more scientifically sourced.

Altmetric

Altmetric returns attention scores without an API key for most DOIs and ISBNs. If a DOI or ISBN is not indexed, altmetric_score will be null. For production use, set the ALTMETRIC_KEY environment variable.

Tool reference

Group 1 — History & metadata (14 tools)

Tool	Key arguments	Returns
`get_article_history`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	revision table (revid, user, timestamp, size, comment)
`get_article_recent`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	metadata + full wikitext
`get_article_initial`	`article_name`	first-ever revision metadata + wikitext
`get_article_info`	`article_name`	pageid, title, byte length
`get_tables_all`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	initial + recent + history + info in one call
`get_category_pages`	`category`	list of article titles
`get_pages_in_cat_table`	`category`	structured page table (pageid, title, type)
`get_subcat_table`	`catname`, `replacement`	direct subcategories
`get_subcat_multiple`	`catname_list`	subcategories for N categories
`get_subcat_with_depth`	`catname`, `depth`, `replacement`	recursive subcategories
`get_page_in_cat_multiple`	`catname_list`	pages for N categories
`get_category_history`	`article_list`	revision table for a list of articles
`get_category_recent`	`article_list`, `date_limit`	metadata + wikitext for a list of articles
`get_category_creation`	`article_list`	creation-revision metadata for a list of articles

Group 2 — Citation counting, extraction & quality (19 tools)

Tool	Key arguments	Returns
`get_doi_count`	`text`	`{"count": N}`
`get_ref_count`	`text`	`{"count": N}`
`get_url_count`	`text`	`{"count": N}`
`get_isbn_count`	`text`	`{"count": N}`
`get_hyperlink_count`	`text`	`{"count": N}`
`get_any_count`	`text`, `regexp`	`{"count": N}`
`extract_citations`	`text`	list of CS1 template strings
`extract_wikihypelinks`	`text`	list of `[[...]]` wikilink strings
`replace_wikihypelinks`	`text`	`{"cleaned_text": ...}` with links replaced by display text
`parse_cite_type`	`text`	`{"cite_type": ..., "fields": {...}}`
`extract_with_regex`	`article_name`, `regexp`, `date_limit`	list of regex matches from live article
`extract_all_regex`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	all built-in pattern matches (doi, url, isbn, pmid, …)
`parse_citations`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	structured citation rows (cite_type, doi, author, year, title)
`parse_all_citations`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	long-form table: one row per citation field
`get_citation_types`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	citation counts by CS1 type
`get_source_type_counts`	`text`	citation counts by CS1 type from raw wikitext
`get_sci_score`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	`sci_score` (see above)
`get_top_cited_papers`	`article_name`, `date_limit`	top 40 DOIs annotated via EuropePMC
`get_revert_counts`	`start`, `end`	revert-tagged edit counts by article (≤30-day window)

Group 3 — DOI & ISBN annotation (7 tools)

Tool	Key arguments	Returns
`annotate_dois_europmc`	`doi_list`	title, journal, pubYear, citedByCount, isOpenAccess, …
`annotate_dois_crossref`	`doi_list`	title, authors, journal, year, publisher, citation count
`annotate_dois_altmetric`	`doi_list`	Altmetric score, tweet count, news mentions, …
`annotate_dois_bibtex`	`doi_list`	`{"bibtex_entries": [...]}`
`annotate_isbn_google`	`isbn`	title, authors, publisher, publishedDate, description
`annotate_isbn_openlib`	`isbn`	title, authors, publishers, publish_date, page count
`annotate_isbns_altmetric`	`isbn_list`	Altmetric score per ISBN

Running tests

# Unit tests — no network required
uv run pytest tests/ -m "not integration" -v

# Integration tests — require internet
uv run pytest tests/ -m integration -v

# Full suite
uv run pytest tests/ -v

Troubleshooting

uvx: command not found

Install uv first:

# macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows (PowerShell)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Server not appearing in Claude Code

claude mcp remove wikilite
claude mcp add wikilite -- uvx wikicitation-mcp
claude mcp list

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mwparserfromhell'

The venv is missing a dependency. Run uv sync inside the cloned repo, or reinstall via pip install wikicitation-mcp.

get_revert_counts returns no results

The Wikipedia recentchanges API only retains ~30 days of history. Requests for date ranges older than that will return empty results.

These three projects share the same core analysis logic at three different levels of interactivity — pick the one that matches how you want to work.

Project	Interface	When to use
wikicitation-mcp (this repo)	MCP server for Claude Desktop / Claude Code / claude.ai	You want to ask Claude questions in natural language and have it call the tools for you. Pure Python, no R required.
wikilite	R package	You want a programmable pipeline in R / R Markdown / Quarto with full access to revision tables, citation parsers, and ggplot2 / plotly / visNetwork output.
wikiliteApp	Shiny web app (built on `wikilite`)	You want a point-and-click GUI: per-article tabs (History Flow, Citations, Authorship, Stability with SciScore-over-time, Vandalism & Wars, WikiWho-powered Revision Inspector) and a Corpus Analysis mode (multi-corpus timeline, per-article + per-corpus SciScore, co-citation / publication / wikilink networks, batched EuropePMC + Google Books annotation, multi-sheet XLSX exports).

External references

Model Context Protocol — MCP specification
FastMCP — Python MCP framework used here
mwparserfromhell — wikitext parser

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wikicitation-mcp

What you can do

Installation

Option A — PyPI (recommended)

Option B — From source

Connect to Claude

Claude Code (CLI) — PyPI

Claude Code (CLI) — from source

Claude Desktop — PyPI

Claude Desktop — from source

claude.ai (web, HTTP transport)

Quick start

Usage notes

date_limit is an upper bound

SciScore

Altmetric

Tool reference

Group 1 — History & metadata (14 tools)

Group 2 — Citation counting, extraction & quality (19 tools)

Group 3 — DOI & ISBN annotation (7 tools)

Running tests

Troubleshooting

Related projects

External references

Maintenance

Resources

Related MCP Connectors

Related MCP Servers

Wikipedia MCP Server

chimeralang-mcp

verification-mcp

openpapers-mcp

`date_limit` is an upper bound