Wikipedia MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch and read Wikipedia articles and sections, list cited references, nearby pages, and languages.
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3 stars608 downloads/wk
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Wikipedia tools
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How Wikipedia compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 471 ms
- faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 3
- more than 73% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 608
- more than 88% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 7 versions in the registry since 2026-09-17, latest 2026-10-29, typically one every 5 days.
Install Wikipedia in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http wikipedia-mcp-server https://wikipedia.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Wikipedia repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/wikipedia-mcp-server Search Wikipedia articles, read summaries and full text, target sections, find nearby pages, and list language editions via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 6 Tools
Public Hosted Server: https://wikipedia.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
Wikipedia content via the MediaWiki REST API and Action API. Search articles, read summaries or targeted sections, find geotagged pages near a coordinate, and list language editions from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Capability reference
wikipediasearcharticles tool
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Grade history
- 2026-09-18restoreB → Ascore 93
Wikipedia: common questions
- Is Wikipedia MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Wikipedia safety report
- How do I install Wikipedia?
- It runs remotely at wikipedia.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Wikipedia need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Wikipedia maintained?
- The last commit was 42 days ago (2026-09-23). The latest release is v0.3.0.
- Is Wikipedia up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Wikipedia?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Claude Code Ultimate Guide MCP server, Exa Search MCP server and Zoteus MCP server.
- How does Wikipedia compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 471 ms (faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.
Alternatives to Wikipedia
Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.
- Claude Code Ultimate GuideSearch the Claude Code Ultimate Guide and machine-readable references from any MCP client.not reviewedEstablishedA
- Exa SearchSearch the live web and fetch clean content from source pages.not reviewedEstablishedA
ZoteusZotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.not reviewedEstablishedA
Search1APIWeb search, agentic search, news, page retrieval, sitemaps, and trending topics through Search1API.not reviewedEstablishedA
Free SearchNo-API-key web search, page fetching and document reading across many engines. Local-first.not reviewedEstablishedB
