npx mcpbar@latest install shiquda/mediawiki-mcp-server -c claude

npx mcpbar@latest edit -c claude

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "MediaWiki Server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mediawiki-mcp-server",
        "--base-url",
        "https://example.com/"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HTTP_PROXY": "http://example.com:port"
      }
    }
  }
}

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 🤖!

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b5d9c5f3-a60e-48ea-8b4b-f1a7524d4fbb

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search wiki pages with customizable wiki site. e.g. wikipedia.org, fandom.com, wiki.gg and more!
• 📖 Retrieve detailed page content

Usage 💻

1. Ensure that uv is installed on your device.
2. 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.

{
  "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-server

Here are some documents that might help:

• https://www.mediawiki.org/api/rest_v1/

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.