Wikipedia MCP
Wikipedia retrieval MCP server: fetch articles, search, and pull structured Wikipedia content into agent context. 239 stars and 4 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Wikipedia retrieval MCP server: fetch articles, search, and pull structured Wikipedia content into agent context. 239 stars and 4 commits on main in the last 30 days. Tier 2 placement reflects the modest cadence; the established Wikipedia source signal carries the score.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"wikipedia_mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"wikipedia_mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"wikipedia_mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"wikipedia_mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"wikipedia": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"wikipedia_mcp"
]
}
}
}
6 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 239 GitHub stars and MIT licence.
- 4 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Tool surface covers search, full article, summary, sections, links, categories.
- Wikipedia is an authoritative reference source for general knowledge contexts.
- Pairs with Brave Search, Exa, Tavily, DuckDuckGo for category breadth in search.
- 4 commits on main in the last 30 days, modest cadence for Tier 1.
- Wikipedia API has rate limits; high-volume agents need to throttle.
- Single-maintainer governance.
- Wikipedia content can be wrong or biased; treat retrieved content as untrusted text.
The MCP fetches public Wikipedia data via the public API. No authentication required. Wikipedia content is community-edited and can contain errors, vandalism, or bias; agents should cite Wikipedia as a source while treating retrieved content as informational, with verification from primary sources for high-stakes claims.
Agents needing general-knowledge reference context (history, science, geography, biographical lookups); research workflows where the agent benefits from established Wikipedia summaries; content workflows that pull citations from Wikipedia articles.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this239 stars on the Rudra-ravi/wikipedia-mcp repo. 4 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with Brave Search, Exa, Tavily, DuckDuckGo for category coverage. Wikipedia adds reference-grade general-knowledge access to the search category.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 3.8editorial | 239 | — | MAY 3, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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